There is money to be made on German guilt, and the readership will lap it up. However, he is one of the few German intellectuals who has the courage to object to the facile guilt-mongering in which opportunists of every persuasion, especially in Germany, habitually indulge. Daniel Goldhagen, who, to my understanding, stipulates that anti-Semitism is inborn in Germans, has met with little criticism in Germany. In fact, his book tour became a triumphal ride through the public forums of the nation. Serious questioning of his theories came almost entirely from Jewish intellectuals.
Few people seem to sense any danger in demonizing a nation when that nation is German.
Children of German immigrants rarely escape the taunting of anti-German bigots in Ontario's schools. Contrary to what her article suggests, the current debate in Germany is not about Ernst Nolte and his revisionist ideas on the origins of Hitler's racial ideology and methodology. Unfortunately, that does not mean that everybody now disregards his view of the Nazi past. However, a fringe group such as the Deutschland Foundation on the far right of the German Christian Democratic Party can certainly not be regarded as the mouthpiece of a broader revisionist attack. The consensus on Nazi Germany's responsibility for the Second World War and the Holocaust is well-established.