The German novelist Martin Walser's 1998 speech upon accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade remains a milestone in recent German efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past. The day after the speech, Ignatz Bubis, leader of Germany's Jewish community, attacked Walser for inciting dangerous right-wing sentiment with controversial passages including the notorious statement -Auschwitz is not suited to be a moral bludgeon, - thus igniting the protracted public battle of opinions known as the -Walser-Bubis Debate.- The speech continues to loom large in Germany's struggle to acknowledge...