Michael Phayer (born 1935) is an American historian and professor emeritus at

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and has written on 19th- and 20th-century

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and the

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. Phayer received his PhD from the

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in 1968 and joined Marquette's Department of History in 1970. He attained the rank of Professor in 1990 and retired in 2002. He is the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University. He has published numerous research articles and books relating to

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, the

and the

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, including his most recent, ''Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War'' (2007). His previous work was '' The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965'' (published in 2000).

Bibliography

* Michael Phayer, ''Sexual Liberation and Religion in Nineteenth Century Europe'', Totowa, NJ, Rowman and Littlefield, 1977. * Michael Phayer, ''Protestant and Catholic Women in Nazi Germany'', Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1990. * Michael Phayer and Eva Fleischner, ''Cries in the Night: Women Who Challenged the Holocaust'', Kansas City, Sheed & Ward, 1997. * *

External links

* Michael Phayer,
"Canonizing Pius XII. Why did the pope help Nazis escape?"
''Commonweal'', May 9, 2003 / Vol. CXXX (9). * Michael Phayer
"'Et Papa tacet': the genocide of Polish Catholics"
''Commonweal'', April 8, 2005 / Vol. CXXXII (7). 1935 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of the Holocaust Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Marquette University faculty Historians of the Catholic Church American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub