Martin Kitchen is a British-Canadian historian, specialized in modern European history, with an emphasis on Germany. Professor Emeritus of history at Simon Fraser University, he started teaching in 1966. He also taught at the Cambridge Group for Population Studies (Cambridge University).
I entered into this with an optimistic view of the efficiency and value of the military to German society not expecting as assassination, whereby rather than being a positive & creative influence militarism was a dangerous snare. So it opened a new perspective to me and one that I think has more merit than my earlier assumption.