In this episode of Justice Atlas we will be talking about the state’s testimonial regime and counter forensic sciences together with critical law scholar Başak Ertür and editor-in-chief and author Tanıl Bora. We discuss the possibilities of producing evidence in the civilian sphere when the guilty party is the state itself, through the actions of Nationalsozialistischer Unterground (NSU), the organisation that committed racist murders in Germany and whose actions were covered up. 
 
The discussion starts off from the Wolfgang Schorlau's novel Die Schützende Hand (The Protective Hand) which reveals NSU's connection with the German intelligence service and exposes the cover-up evidence. The book was translated into Turkish by Hulki Demirel and published by İletişim Publishing with the title Koruyan El. The episode opens with the voice of actor Tansu Biçer, reading a section from the epilogue and puts forward following critical questions:
 
Can state crimes be tried in the state’s own courts? What kind of monopoly does the government have over the forensic sciences? Why did Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Organization for the Protection of the Constitution cover up the racist murders of the NSU? How can the testimonial regime be breached when the culprit is the state itself? How did Wolfgang Schorlau obtain the real and the hidden side of the matter through literature which is -in itself- a tool of fiction? How is the Forensic Architecture team included among those who prove state crimes?  What  changes when the facts come to light in the post-truth era?