Ernst Nolte dies at 93: In the Shadow of Nazi Reminder – RP ONLINE

Dusseldorf. The controversial historian Ernst Nolte has died at the age of 93 years. By Michael Hamerla

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University of Cologne 50 years ago: Ernst Nolte, author of a sensational book about fascism, describes in a jam-packed auditorium how in Trieste the charismatic poet D’Annunzio and meet the charismatic politician Mussolini and inspire each other. The description is ironic and lively, the audience laughing learn. A little later: Nolte holds a seminar on the origins of fascism. Nothing is to wit, the master keeps his six adepts to repeatedly reproduce his words true. Own formulations from students mouth? Undesirable. A – all cognition enhancing in particular -. Toil for weeks

Ernst Nolte, the contentious and controversial Berlin historian, came from the philosophy of the language heroic Heidegger School. For his great until today as a standard factory applicable book “Fascism in its epoch” philosophical training was a big win. Nolte was not satisfied with the outrage over the crimes of the Nazis, he dug after spirit historical roots, and found them in French “Action Francaise” and in Italian fascism, radicalized their idea of ​​National Socialism. Nolte rejected the view that Hitler was a not quite comprehensible random in German history. Rather Nazism the desperate attack, “which was performed according to the human being and the transcendence in him” was. The millions of his victims Fees “the highest honor of all.”

By this is to remember when is now reported on the age of 93 years dead. For two decades after its Fascism analysis Nolte became the center of a controversy in which it – has been accused of playing down the crimes of National Socialism – until now effective. Nolte was also discovered in the intellectual history of democratic states destruction fantasies that flourished especially in the early industrialization – but never became reality. And he had – not for the first time – busy with the Russian Revolution

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Hitler and entourage had demonized the role of Jews in the Russian Revolution and a ” Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy “designed. As Nolte in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine” a “causal nexus” between the Russian revolution and Nazism stated, read the critics, as if Nolte ( “Was not the Gulag Archipelago precede Auschwitz?”) Lenin and Trotsky to blame for the NS Crimes push. Nolte rejected the accusation, but was not willing to rephrase.

It is possible that in the debate, which reiterated the importance of research on the Nazi period, not only linguistic stubbornness or concern for the memory was palpable at the Nazi killings, but also a little revenge. RP

: In the turbulent ’70s, the first to be at left Nolte in Berlin had the conservative “covenant freedom of science” connected

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