Michael Hans Kater (born July 4, 1937)[1] is a German-Canadian historian of Nazism.
He is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of history at York University, Toronto, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Kater was born in Zittau and moved to Canada in his teens.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and in 1990 won the Konrad Adenauer Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
[1][2] His book Doctors Under Hitler won the Royal Society of Canada's Jason A. Hannah Medal in 1991.