One of Nolte's letters created another controversy in late 1987, when Otto Dov Kulka complained that a letter he wrote to Nolte criticizing his views was edited by Nolte to make him appear rather sympathetic to Nolte's arguments, and then released to the press. In 1987, Nolte wrote an entire book responding to his critics both German and foreign, "Das Vergehen der Vergangenheit : Antwort an meine Kritiker im sogenannten Historikerstreit" ("The Offense Of The Past: Answer At My Critics In The So-Called Historians' Dispute"), which again attracted controversy because Nolte reprinted the edited version of Kulka's letters, despite the latter's objections to their inclusion in the book in their truncated form. In "Das Vergehen der Vergangenheit", Nolte declared that the "Historikerstreit" should have begun 25 years earlier because "everything which has provoked such excitement in the course of this dispute had already been spelled out in those books earlier work" and that ""the simple scheme 'perpetrators-victims' reduces the complexities of history too much"" (emphasis in the original). In "Das Vergehen der Vergangenheit", Nolte appeared to backtrack from some of his theories, writing that after Weizmann's letter, European Jews should be treated as "civil internees" rather as "prisoners of war". Evans wrote that the sole purpose of "Das Vergehen der Vergangenheit" appeared to be to obscure the issues by making confusing statements about what he actually said and wrote, and that Nolte's real purpose to justify the "Shoah" as there is not other reason why Nolte should have been making these arguments. When an anthology was published about the "Historikerstreit", Nolte objected to the subtitle “The Documentation of the Controversy Concerning the Singularity of the National Socialist Annihilation of the Jews”, and instead demanded that the subtitle be “Documentation of the Controversy Surrounding the Preconditions and the Character of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”. Only when it became clear that the book could not be published, did Nolte yield on his demands.