Germany: Memory no longer protects democracy, forty years after the Historians' Quarrel (legrandcontinent.eu)

• Ernst Nolte's 1986 article triggered the Historikerstreit over Holocaust uniqueness.
• Jürgen Habermas's constitutional patriotism is being eroded by AfD revisionism.
• US tech figures (Musk, Thiel, Karp) actively support the AfD and critique post-war consensus.

"Forty years after Ernst Nolte sparked the Historikerstreit by questioning the uniqueness of the Holocaust, the article examines its continuing relevance. With the far-right AfD rising and openly using Nazi rhetoric, and US tech figures (Musk, Thiel, Karp) undermining Habermas's deliberative democracy, the protective power of historical memory is fading. Habermas's constitutional patriotism faces challenges from both domestic revisionism and Silicon Valley's anti-consensus stance."