Edited sentence: Klaus Hildebrand defended Hillgruber by attacking Habermas over the “tried and true higher-ups of the NSDAP” line created by Habermas, which Hildebrand considered a highly dishonest method of attack Hildebrand argued that Hillgruber was merely trying to show the tragedy of the Eastern Front, and was not engaging in moral equivalence between the German and Soviet sides Another essay Hildebrand accused Habermas of engaging in “scandalous” attacks on Hillgruber Hildebrand claimed that “Habermas’s criticism is based in no small part on quotations that unambiguously falsify the matter”