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Hildebrand defended Hillgruber by attacking Habermas over the “ tried and true higher-ups of the NSDAP ” line created by Habermas, which Hildebrand considered a highly dishonest method of attack Hildebrand argued that Hillgruber was merely trying to show the " tragedy " of the Eastern Front, and was not engaging in moral equivalence between the German and Soviet sides In another essay entitled " He Who Wants to Escape the Abyss " first published in Die Welt on November 22, 1986, Hildebrand accused Habermas of engaging in “ scandalous ” attacks on Hillgruber Hildebrand claimed that “ Habermas ’ s criticism is based in no small part on quotations that unambiguously falsify the matter ” Hildebrand wrote that in his view about Habermas that: “ A citation garbled like this is no way a forgivable exception.

Rather, Habermas consistently and studiously distorts the texts, which unfortunately does not study, but more accurately, haunts … To want to justify Habermas ’ s treatment of texts contradicts everything that his customary in historical scholarship and in the area of everyday life.

Every student who treated literature in the “ Habermas way ” would fail his exam!

" As part of his attack on Habermas and his supporters, Hildebrand assailed the functionalist interpretations of the Holocaust advanced by Hans Mommsen and Martin Broszat as little better than Holocaust denial, and commented sarcastically that in the Historikerstreit that the “ revisionists ” Mommsen and Broszat were supporting Habermas in his attacks on the “ revisionists ” Nolte and Hillgruber Hildebrand wrote as part of his attack on the “ singularity ” of the Holocaust that: