 He denied seeking to “endow” history with a “higher meaning”, accusing Habermas of seeking to do that.Stürmer charged that Habermas had created an “indictment that even fabricates its own sources”, and ended his letter with the remark about Habermas "It's a shame about this man who once had something to say".Replying to Stürmer, Habermas in his "Note" of February 23, 1987 accused Stürmer of having the "chutzpah" to deny his own views when he wrote that he was not seeking to "endow" history with a "higher meaning", and quoted from Stürmer's book "Dissonanzen des Fortschritts" to support his contention.