Books by Michael H. Kater

6. Michael H. Kater, After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany .  Another excellent work.  From this book I took away the (unintended?) conclusion that the German written and cinematic contributions have not aged well, due to excessive (but understandable) preoccupations with Naziism and the Second World War.  The greatest German postwar cultural contributions in fact are Richter, Beuys, Kiefer, Baselitz, Stockhausen, Kraftwerk, and Can.  The less literal artistic forms dealt with th...

1. Michael H. Kater, Culture in Nazi Germany .  The best general introduction to this still-important topic.