Goldhagen has been thoroughly trounced in A Nation on Trial. The fault of Goldhagen's volume is his acceptance of the Holocaust story of the ideologues. But this fault also runs throughout the works of holocaust scholarship that Finkelstein otherwise champions. Therefore their attempts debunk only small pieces of the Holocaust. For these efforts the authors of such works receive few accolades and much criticism.
Revisionist historians continue to raise pointed questions about the holocaust.
The ideologues, including Goldhagen refuse to give even an inch, making their position absurd and unreconcilable with the truth. Without attempting to do so, Finkelstein has shown both the bankruptcy of Goldhagen's book and the shortfalls of Holocaust literature and holocaust scholarship as well. Until historians can present the events of the holocaust without fear and intimidation, until the topic can be freed from its political ramifications, truth will remain the lone territory of the revisionists.