Martin Kitchen (December 21, 1936,
Nottingham,
England) is a
British-
Canadianhistorian, who has specialized in modern European history, with an emphasis on
Germany. He is internationally regarded as a key author for the study of contemporary history.[1]
Now Professor Emeritus of history at
Simon Fraser University, Kitchen started teaching in 1966. He also taught at the Cambridge Group for Population Studies (
Cambridge University).[1]
Kitchen received the following reviews for Speer: Hitler's Architect, a biography of the Nazi war criminal
Albert Speer. Writing in 2016
Roger Moorhouse for History Today said "Kitchen is brilliant and brutal, exposing every aspect of his subject’s story to stern scrutiny. He begins at the very start, showing that even Speer’s tale of his birth was a lie."[2] The Kirkus Review said "Kitchen sets the record straight on Albert Speer’s assertions of ignorance of the Final Solution and claims to being the good Nazi."[3]Jonathan Meades writing in the London Review of Books said "Speer: Hitler’s Architect is not a biography. It is a 200,000-word charge sheet. Kitchen is steely, dogged and attentive to the small print. He shows Speer no mercy, nailing his every exculpatory ruse and demonstrating time and again how provisional the notion of truth was to him.[4]
Books
The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence (Lincoln, Nebraska: Potomac Books, 2017)