Michael Phayer

{{Short description|American historian (born 1935)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox academic | name = Michael Phayer | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1935}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | spouse = | partner = | awards =  | alma_mater = LMU Munich | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = History | sub_discipline = Modern European history | workplaces = Marquette University | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = Holocaust | notable_works = ''The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965'' (2000) | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Michael Phayer''' (born 1935) is an American historian and professor emeritus at Marquette University in Milwaukee and has written on 19th- and 20th-century European history and the Holocaust.

Phayer received his PhD from LMU Munich in 1968 and joined Marquette's Department of History in 1970.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=German Studies Association |title=Candidate Vitae |journal=Newsletter |date=1989 |volume=14-16 |page=24 |publisher=German Studies Review}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kazensky |first1=Michelle |title=The Writers Directory 2008, Volume 2 |date=2007 |publisher=Thomson Gale |isbn=9781558626003 |page=1565 |quote=PHAYER, Michael. American (born United States), b. 1935. Genres: History. Career: Marquette University, Milwaukee, professor of History, 1970-, currently professor emeritus.}}</ref> He became Professor in 1990 and retired in 2002.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Leon |title=Scholar: Fear of communism led Vatican to help Nazi criminals |url=https://www.jewishchronicle.org/2008/04/30/scholar-fear-of-communism-led-vatican-to-help-nazi-criminals/ |work=The Jewish Chronicle |date=30 April 2008}}</ref> He was an Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professors of Holocaust Studies |url=https://stockton.edu/holocaust-resource/ida_e_king.html |website=stockton.edu |publisher=Stockton University}}</ref> He has published numerous research articles and books relating to Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and the Catholic Church, 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. * {{Cite book|last=Phayer|first=Michael|authorlink=Michael Phayer|title=The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965|year=2000|location=Bloomington and Indianapolis|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253337252 |url=https://archive.org/details/catholicchurchho00phay|url-access=registration}} * {{Cite book|last=Phayer|first=Michael|authorlink=Michael Phayer|title=Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War|year=2008|location=Bloomington and Indianapolis|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253349309|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgTZAAAAMAAJ}}

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==External links== * Michael Phayer, [http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=42 "Canonizing Pius XII. Why did the pope help Nazis escape?"], ''Commonweal'', May 9, 2003 / Vol. CXXX (9). * Michael Phayer, [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/'Et+Papa+tacet'%3a+the+genocide+of+Polish+Catholics-a0131753946 "'Et Papa tacet': the genocide of Polish Catholics"], ''Commonweal'', April 8, 2005 / Vol. CXXXII (7).

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