Sybille Steinbacher

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Sybille Steinbacher is a German historian. Since May 2017 she has been Professor of Holocaust Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.[1][2]

Steinbacher is the author of several works on the Holocaust, including Musterstadt Auschwitz: Germanisierungspolitik Und Judenmord in Ostoberschlesien (2010) and Auschwitz: A History (2005). She was a residential fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from October 2012 to June 2013,[3] and has served as Professor of Dictatorship, Violence and Genocide Comparative Studies at the University of Vienna.[2] Her appointment by Goethe University Frankfurt in December 2016 made her Germany's first Professor of Holocaust Studies. She also became director of the university's Fritz Bauer Institute.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sybille Steinbacher becomes first professor of Holocaust Studies in Germany". Goethe University Frankfurt. 21 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Germany establishes its first Holocaust Studies professorship". Deutsche Welle. 18 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Fellow Dr. Sybille Steinbacher". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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