Author: Ernst Nolte

Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte (11 January 1923 – 18 August 2016) was a German historian and philosopher. Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism. Originally a university-prep high-school teacher, he later became a professor for the history of ideologies at the University of Marburg (1965 to 1973) and then at the Free University of Berlin (1973 until his 1991 retirement). Nolte's views on the causal link between Soviet Bolshevism as the originator of German Fascism triggered the so-called "Historikerstreit" in Germany, with which Germany's leftist mainstream wanted to prevent making the National-Socialist era comprehensible by putting it into its historical context. After his retirement, Nolte argued that Holocaust-revisionist publications need to be taken seriously as legitimate scholarly efforts that are qualitatively superior to similar mainstream efforts. That led to physical attacks against him.

Auschwitz in History

By Ernst Nolte ∙ January 2, 1999

Ernst Nolte “Was someone an ‘Auschwitz denier’ if, a decade ago, he disputed the officially sanctioned thesis that four million human beings were gassed in Auschwitz – that is, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp? Should Daniel Goldhagen today be considered an ‘Auschwitz denier’ because, in a passage right at the beginning of his book that reviewers…

The Third Reich’s Place in History

By Ernst Nolte ∙ January 1, 1994

Throwing Off Germany’s Imposed History Ian Warren is the pen name of a professor who teaches at a university in the Midwest. Although Prof. Nolte did not originally understand that this interview was to appear in the Journal, he assented to publication after reviewing the complete text. Some thirteen years ago, a leading figure of…

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