Holocaust apologist wins German literary prize

[Otto Sell]

It`s simply a shame. In a way that guy denied the Holocaust.

Otto 
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From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:02 PM
Subject: Holocaust apologist wins German literary prize


> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/062100nolte-prize.html
> 
> BERLIN, June 20 -- The award of one of Germany's most prestigious 
> literary prizes to a historian who has sought to justify the 
> Holocaust has ignited a fierce dispute here at a time of conservative 
> and reactionary intellectual stirrings in Europe.
> 
> The historian, Ernst Nolte, has argued that Hitler's anti-Semitism 
> had a "rational core" and that Nazism was in essence a riposte to 
> Bolshevism. He received the Konrad Adenauer Prize for literature this 
> month, causing an uproar that has filled newspapers with invective 
> and divided one of the country's leading historical institutes.