German Historian Michael Stürmer Dies at 86

Michael Stürmer, the prominent German historian and public intellectual, has died at age 86. Stürmer was known for his work on German history, particularly the Nazi era and the post-war period. He served as a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and was a leading figure in the Historikerstreit of the 1980s, a major intellectual debate about the interpretation of the Holocaust. Stürmer also wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and was an advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. His death marks the end of an era in German historical scholarship.