Historikerstreit

The Historikerstreit (English: Historians' dispute) was an intellectual and political controversy in West Germany about the way the Holocaust should be interpreted in history.  It took place between 1986-1989, and pitted left-wing intellectuals against right-wing intellectuals. Its embers flared up again briefly in 2000Cohen, New York Times when one of the leading figures, Ernst Nolte, was awarded a literary prize. "Die Vergangenheit, die nicht vergehen will" proposed by Ernst Nolte, had to be rejected as inadequate due to their lack of sufficient empirical substance.The past that does not want to pass

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 German Jews
 Polish Memory Law
 Historical revisionism
 Secondary antisemitism
 Holocaust uniqueness debate

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Category:Historical studies
Category:History of Germany
Category:Antisemitism in Germany