Anson Rabinbach accused Nolte of attempting to erase German guilt for the Holocaust.Rabinbach in Baldwin (1990) p. 65 Ian Kershaw wrote that Nolte was claiming that the Jews had essentially brought the Holocaust down on themselves, and were the authors of their own misfortunes in the Shoah.Kershaw, pp. 175–76 Elie Wiesel called Nolte, together with Klaus Hildebrand, Andreas Hillgruber, and Michael Stürmer, one of the “four bandits” of German historiography.Lukacs, John The Hitler of History p. 238
