Forever in the Shadow of Hitler?: Original Documents of the Historikerstreit, the Controversy Concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust

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This work offers an English translation of primary documents that contributed to a debate in Germany in 1987 before the General Election in the Federal Republic on the need to reassess the historical interpretation of the Holocaust and the legacy of the Third Reich. nsM CONTENTS PUBLISHER’S NOTE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION EDITORIAL PREFACE ERNST NOLTE Between Historical Legend and Revisionism? The Third Reich in the Perspective of 1980 MICHAEL STURMER History in a Land without History ERNST NOLTE The Past That Will Not Pass: A Speech That Could Be Written but Not Delivered CHRISTIAN MEIER Condemning and Comprehending JÜRGEN HABERMAS A Kind of Settlement of Damages: The Apologetic Tendencies in German History Writing KLAUS HILDEBRAND ERNST NOLTE Letter to the Editor of Die Zeit, August 1, 1986 JÜRGEN HABERMAS Letter to the Editor of the MICHAEL STURMER Letter to the Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 16, 1986 KARL DIETRICH BRACHER Letter to the Editor of the EBERHARD JÄCKEL HELMUT FLEISCHER The Morality of History: On the Dispute about the Past That Will Not Pass JÜRGEN KOCKA HAGEN SCHULZE Questions We Have to Face: No Historical Stance without National Identity HANNO HELBLING A Searching Image of the Past: What Is Expected from German History Books HANS MOMMSEN The New Historical Consciousness and the Relativizing of National Socialism MARTIN BROSZAT Where the Roads Part: History Is Not a Suitable Substitute for a Religion of Nationalism RUDOLF AUGSTEIN The New Auschwitz Lie CHRISTIAN MEIER THOMAS NIPPERDEY Under the Domination of Suspicion: Scholarly Statements Should Not Be Judged by Their Political Function IMANUEL GEISS Letter to the Editor of Der Spiegel, October 20, 1986 ERNST NOLTE Standing Things on Their Heads: Against Negative Nationalism in Interpreting History ANDREAS HILLGRUBER No Questions Are Forbidden to Research JÜRGEN HABERMAS HEINRICH AUGUST WINKLER Eternally in the Shadow of Hitler? The Dispute about the Germans’ Understanding of History CHRISTIAN MEIER Not a Concluding Remark KURT SONTHEIMER Makeup Artists Are Creating a New Identity MICHAEL STÜRMER How Much History Weighs ANDREAS HILLGRUBER Letter to the Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 29, 1986 RICHARD LOWENTHAL Letter to the Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 29, 1986 HORST MÖLLER What May Not Be, Cannot Be: A Plea for Rendering Factual the Controversy about Recent History ANDREAS HILLGRUBER Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Heinz Janßen, and the Enlightenment in the Year 1986 WALTER EUCHNER The Nazi Reign—A Case of Normal Tyranny? On the Misuse of Philosophical Interpretations ERNST NOLTE Letter to the Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 6, 1986 ROBERT LEICHT JOACHIM PERELS IMANUEL GEISS JÜRGEN HABERMAS Note, February 23, 1987 ERNST NOLTE Concluding Note, April 15, 1987 JOACHIM FEST Postscript, April 21, 1987 MICHAEL STÜRMER Postscript, April 25, 1987 ANDREAS HILLGRUBER My Concluding Remarks on the So-Called Historikerstreit, May 12, 1987 ABOUT THE AUTHORS AFTERWORD TO THE HISTORIKERSTREIT INDEX