This book brings together for the first time the most important texts of the dispute among historians about the uniqueness of the Holocaust and the role it plays in the interpretation of German history after 1945, which was an important intellectual and political debate that held in the former Republic of Germany, between 1986 and 1987. The direct source of controversy was the publication of an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung under the title Vergangenheit Die, die nicht Vergehen Will (The past that refuses to pass. A speech that was written, but could never be uttered) the historian Ernst Nolte. There, the author describes the Holocaust as a nationalist reaction to previous crimes and extermination in the Soviet Union Stalin, and even notes that totalitarianism was a product of the introduced Asiatic barbarism in Europe. Jürgen Habermas strongly opposed this view and called it "revisionism," which, he must renew the national consciousness after being released from a past so demoralizing._x000D_
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From the German conservative historians had created the image of German history in which there was no place for nationalism, which was considered as a product of criminals. Maintaining the thesis that the German Third Reich had carried out a military policy that caused the World War of 1914-18. Along the same lines is observed that National was just an inevitable consequence of such a policy._x000D_
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One of the most important results of these reflections, political, and philosophical historiography was the expression of Habermas' public use of history. "_x000D_
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We publish in this small volume, also, an essay by Thomas Mann surprising that he wrote while in exile in California and Switzerland, between spring 1938 and 1939, and published for the first time with the English title That man is my brother. Here I wanted the world to see the politician Hitler as a failed artist. Thomas Mann as a mediocre artist reveals that becomes criminal for his lack of creativity ...