Michael H. Kater

Michael Hans Kater (born July 4, 1937 in Zittau, Germany) is a Canadian-based historian, academic and author of several books on Nazi Germany.^[1]

He moved to Canada as a teenager where he first studied at St. Michael's college before eventually going onto the University of Toronto where he earned his BA degree in 1959 and then his MA in 1961 respectively. In 1966, while at the University of Heidelberg, he produced a written thesis on the subject of the Nazi's 'Ancestral Heritage' association. At this same time, pro-Nazi scholar, Werner Conze, also lectured at this same University in Heidelberg.^[2]

Since 1967, Kater has been teaching at the York University in Toronto. Many of his books have been translated into German.

Published Books

• The "Ancestral Heritage": The research and teaching community in the SS, the organization of history from 1935 to 1945. Dissertation Heidelberg 1966 4th Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57950-9 .
• Student body and right-wing extremism in Germany (1918-1933). A socio-historical study of the education crisis in the Weimar Republic. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-455-09187-3 .
• Doctors under Hitler. Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, London 1989, ISBN 0-8078-1842-9 . German translation: Hitler's doctors as helpers. Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-203-79005-X .
• Different drummers. Jazz in the culture of Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford 1992. German translation: Consenting Adults. Jazz in National Socialism. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02409-4 .
• The twisted muse. Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich. Oxford University Press, New York 1997th German translation: The abused muse. Musicians in the Third Reich. Europa Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-203-79004-1 .
• Composers of the Nazi era: eight portraits. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-509924-9 . German translation: Composers of National Socialism. Eight portraits. Partha-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936324-12-3
• Hitler Youth. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.., London 2004, ISBN 0-674-01496-0 . German translation: Hitler Youth. Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-89678-252-5 .
• Never sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann, 1888-1976. Cambridge University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-87392-5 .

See also

• Ian Kershaw
• Martin Broszat
• Saul Friedländer
• Daniel Goldhagen

References

External links

• Michael Kater - IMDb - Biography
• F0456 - Michael H. Kater fonds
• CCGES (The Canadian centre for German and European studies) » Michael H. Kater
• DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (Kater's books published in German)
• Michael H. Kater | Communicatum
• Das "Ahnenerbe" : die Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft in der SS : Organisationsgeschichte von 1935 bis 1945 (Thesis/dissertation, 1966) [WorldCat.org]