Eberhard Jäckel
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Eberhard Jäckel was a German historian. In the 1980s, he was a principal protagonist in the Historians' Dispute over how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German historiography and ov
Jäckel in 2009
Ernst Nolte
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Ernst Nolte was a German historian and philosopher. Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism. Originally trained in philosophy, he was professor emeritus of modern h
Eberhard Jäckel
…Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen 1905-1924 were forgeries. In the Historikerstreit (Historians' Dispute) of 1986-1988, Jäckel was a prominent critic of Ernst Nolte, whose theory of Nazi crimes as a reaction to Soviet crimes was denounced as ahistorical by Jäckel under the grounds that Hitler held the Soviet Union…
Ernst Nolte
The flight of Yuri Gagarin around the earth in 1961 was used by Nolte in his 1963 book Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche as an example of "transcendence".
Nolte called the Auschwitz death camp and the other German death camps of World War II a "copy" of the Soviet Gulag camps.
The ruins of Hamburg after the 1943 firebombing. Nolte called British "area bombing" of Germany a policy of "genocide".