 Complete the following phrase:  In his feuilleton, Nolte offered a new way of understanding German history which sought to break free of the past that will not pass, by contending that Nazi crimes were only the consequence of a defensive reaction against Soviet crimes. In Noltes view, National Socialism had only arisen in response to the class genocide and Asiatic barbarism of the Bolsheviks. Nolte cited as example the early Nazi Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, who during World War I had been the German consul in Erzerum, Turkey, where he was appalled by the 