 The committee attracted some controversy when it refused to publish a hostile biography of Gustav Noske.During the late 1980s, Stürmer played a prominent role in the "Historikerstreit".Left-wing historians criticized him for an essay he wrote entitled "Land Without History" published in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" on April 25, 1986, in which he had claimed that Germans lacked a history to be proud of, and called for a positive evaluation of German history as a way of building national pride.