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Nolte was born in Witten, Westphalia to a Roman Catholic family.

Nolte's parents were Heinrich Nolte, a school rector, and Anna ( née Bruns ) Nolte.

According to Nolte in a March 28, 2003 interview with a French newspaper Eurozine, his first encounter with Communism occurred when he was 7 years old in 1930, when he read in a doctor's office a German translation of a Soviet children's book attacking the Catholic Church, which angered him.