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MILESTONES, Page 63
DIED. Andreas Hillgruber, 64, West German historian whose
controversial interpretation of the Nazi mass murder of Jews
touched off a heated debate about the meaning of the Holocaust; of
throat cancer; on May 8 in Cologne. In his 1986 book Two Kinds of
Destruction: The Shattering of the German Reich and the End of
European Jewry, Hillgruber argued that the Nazi extermination
program, while atrocious, was not historically unique. Hillgruber
also justified the last stand of Hitler's army against the
approaching Soviets, claiming that it allowed civilians to escape
the "revenge organs of the Red Army."