“a bugaboo, as a past that in the process of establishing itself in the present or that is suspended above the present like an executioner”
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Ernst Nolte
Ernst Nolte was a German historian and philosopher. Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism. Originally trained in philosophy, he was professor emeritus of modern history at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 until his 1991 retirement. He was previously a professor at the University of Marburg from 1965 to 1973. He was best known for his se…
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Born 11 January 1923 · Died 18 August 2016 · Q65108
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2019· 1 entry
Fr: Ernst Nolte ist tot
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2016· 5 entries
kleinezeitung: Umstrittener deutscher Historiker Ernst Nolte gestorben
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DiePresse: Er löste den deutschen „Historikerstreit“ aus: Ernst Nolte ist tot
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SRF: Historiker Ernst Nolte ist tot
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Süddeutsche Zeitung: Wissenschaft - Historiker Ernst Nolte mit 93 Jahren gestorben
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Died 2016-08-18.
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Historian Prize of the Erich and Erna Kronauer Foundation (2012).
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Published “Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 6,639 times.
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Published “Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 6,825 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Defended Nolte from Applebaum's charge of attempting to justify the Holocaust by contending that Nolte had merely argued that the Nazis had made a link in their own minds between Jews and communists and that the Holocaus
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Konrad Adenauer Prize (2000).
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1998· 1 entry
Fascisme et Communisme: échange épistolaire avec l'historien allemand Ernst Nolte prolongeant la Historikerstreit (Fascism and Communism: Epistolary Exchanges with the German Historian Ernst Nolte Extending the Historike
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1987· 1 entry
“s best hope for progress. Nolte wrote that”
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1986· 1 entry
Nolte had planned to deliver a speech before the Frankfurt Römerberg Conversations (an annual gathering of intellectuals), but he had claimed that the organizers of the event withdrew their invitation
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize (1985).
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1980· 1 entry
And excerpts from his speech were published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung without attracting controversy
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1974· 1 entry
“a worldwide reproach that the United States was after all putting into practice in Vietnam, nothing less than its basically crueler version of Auschwitz”
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1965· 1 entry
As The Three Faces of Fascism), in which he argued that fascism arose as a form of resistance to and a reaction against modernity
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1961· 1 entry
As an example of "practical transcendence", of how humanity was pressing forward in its technological development and rapidly acquiring powers traditionally thought to be only the province of the gods
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1952· 1 entry
Received a PhD in philosophy at Freiburg for his thesis Selbstentfremdung und Dialektik im deutschen Idealismus und bei Marx (transl
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1945· 1 entry
The professor feared arrest by the French, Nolte provided him with food and clothing for an attempted escape
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1941· 1 entry
Nolte was excused from military service because of a deformed hand, and he studied Philosophy, Philology and Greek at the Universities of Münster, Berlin, and Freiburg
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1930· 1 entry
When he read in a doctor's office a German translation of a Soviet children's book attacking the Catholic Church, which angered him
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-01-11.
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