Nolte, for his part, started to write a series of letters to newspapers such as "Die Zeit" and "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" attacking his critics; for example, in a letter to "Die Zeit" on 1 August 1986, Nolte complained that his critic Jürgen Habermas was attempting to censor him for expressing his views, and accused Habermas of being the person responsible for blocking him from attending the Römerberg Conversations. In the same letter, Nolte described himself as the unnamed historian whose views on the reasons for the Holocaust had caused Saul Friedländer to walk out in disgust from a dinner party hosted by Nolte in Berlin in February or March 1986 that Habermas had alluded to an earlier letter