The Historikerstreit (German: [hɪsˈtoːʁɪkɐˌʃtʁaɪt], "historians' dispute")[1] was a dispute in the late 1980s in West Germany between conservative and left-of-center academics and other intellectuals about how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German historiography and, more generally, into the German people's view of themselves.[2]