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I flipped a coin between these two, but don't even know what the third option is without looking it up...
Ernst Nolte's thesis (first fully stated in 1986) that what is called the Holocaust should be seen as a defensive reaction of the Germans against Soviet communism - ie, an effort to eliminate those sectors of society that would be most receptive to the Soviet message.
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Preemptively removing the soil, as it were, that Communism might grow in. This was in his view a reaction after the example of the Soviets themselves, who had likewise conducted mass extermination against those social classes most likely to give rise to resistance ...
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... against the Soviet regime. This proved enormously controversial for many reasons, particularly because it disputed directly the 'uniqueness' of the Holocaust, and led to a year+ flame war among historians, with a famous counterattack from Habermas.
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