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]

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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]

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