In particular, controversy centered on an argument of Nolte's 1985 essay “Between Myth and Revisionism” from the book "Aspects of the Third Reich", first published in German as ""Die negative Lebendigkeit des Dritten Reiches"" (""The Negative Vitality of the Third Reich"") as an opinion piece in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" on 24 July 1980, but which did not attract widespread attention until 1986 when Jürgen Habermas criticized the essay in a "feuilleton" piece. Nolte had delivered a lecture at the Siemens-Stiftung in 1980, and excerpts from his speech were published in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" without attracting controversy. In his essay, Nolte argued that if the PLO were to destroy Israel, then the subsequent history written in the new Palestinian state would portray the former Israeli state in the blackest of colors with no references to any of the positive features of the defunct state. In Nolte's opinion, a similar situation of history written only by the victors exists in regards to the history of Nazi Germany. Many historians, such as British historian Richard J. Evans, have asserted that, based on this statement, Nolte appears to believe that the only reason why Nazism is regarded as evil is because Germany lost World War II, with no regard for the Holocaust. In a review which appeared in the "Historische Zeitschrift" journal on 2 April 1986 Klaus Hildebrand called Nolte's essay "Between Myth and Revisionism" “trailblazing”. In the same review Hildebrand argued Nolte had in a praiseworthy way sought: