Meier praised Nolte in his article “Standing Things On Their Head” for speaking to “modify” the thesis that he had introduced in “The Past That Will Not Pass” about the “causal nexus” by claiming the “causal nexus” only existed in Hitler's mind”. Meir expressed his approval of Jäckel's argument for the "singularity" of the Holocaust, writing that "industrial extermination" by Nazi Germany was a "qualitative leap". In response to Fest's argument that it was racist not to compare Germany with Cambodia, Meir stated that Germany by being a First Nation nation had "duties" that a Third World nation like Cambodia did not.. Meir wrote the "Historikerstreit" was really about the future, namely how to "live with a past that is so deeply anchored in our consciousness?". Meir wrote that historians are always influenced by the present and historians "should also be able to discern uncomfortable truths". About Stürmer's call for history as an unifying force to hold together West German society for the Cold War, Meir wrote that Habermas had the right to challenge him, but did not understand the Atlanticist Stürmer was not an advocate of Germany as a Central European power as he alleged. Meir called Stürmer's theories as "probably not...illegitimate", but argued that a democratic society was always going to have diverse opinions. Meir ended his essay that the problems faced by Germans was: "How are going to live with this history and what conclusions can we draw from it?...We will make no progress if we use the Nazi past as a club in partisan disputes...But it is to be wished that the center, especially will be strong, for in the past, the political middle has always been capable of providing reasonable solutions, results and maxims."