Historikerstreit

The Historikerstreit ("historians' quarrel") was an intellectual and political controversy in the late 1980s in West Germany about the comparison of the crimes of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, including their origins. The German word Streit translates variously as "quarrel", "dispute", or "conflict". The most common translation of Historikerstreit in English language academic discourse is "the historians' dispute", though the German term is often used.