Michael H. Kater
Autore di Hitler Youth
Sull'Autore
Michael Kater is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the Centre for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto.
Fonte dell'immagine: Michael H. Kater
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Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene (1994) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 56 copie
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- Altri nomi
- KATER, Michael H.
- Data di nascita
- 1937-07-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Zittau, Germany
- Istruzione
- University of Toronto
University of Heidelberg - Breve biografia
- Kater was born in Zittau, Germany. 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 Nazis' 'Ancestral Heritage' association.
Since 1967, Kater has been teaching at the York University in Toronto. Many of his books have been translated into German.
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- Opere
- 19
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 355
- Popolarità
- #67,468
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 60
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 2
Besides that, Kater does write sympathetically (mostly) about those artists caught up in the maelstrom, and their attempts to survive. Kater basically ends by considering the continuities that made it past "Zero Hour," into post-1945 Germany, and how just because Hitler's vision was slapped down, it doesn't mean that his victims could pick up and begin anew in Germany. One suspects that, in a twisted irony, that those who had not been present in the homeland to experience the whirlwind were not wanted as witnesses to the failures of German society, as the silent complicity to try and forget the immediate past draped itself over Adenauer's Germany. Remembrance and coming to terms would have to wait until another decade.
On the whole I thought this was a worthwhile book, but as a magisterial final statement (Kater is in his mid-eighties), I thought it fell a bit short. At points I got the impression that Kater himself is tired of writing about the Third Reich. Kater's conclusion trying to draw comparisons between how the great totalitarian states managed culture mostly came off as a throwaway effort.… (altro)