Gerald Steinacher (born 2 September 1970) is Professor of History and Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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. After serving at the South Tyrolean Regional Archives in
Bozen
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, he was a
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Research Fellow at Harvard University during 2010-2011 and in 2009 a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at
Harvard University
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. He lectured at the Universities of
Innsbruck
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(Austria),
Luzern
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(Switzerland) and
Munich
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(Germany). In 2006 he was a Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow at the
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in
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Steinacher’s research focuses on 20th Century Central European History with emphasis on Italian Fascism, National Socialism, Holocaust and intelligence studies. He has published two books, edited nine volumes, and wrote a large number of book chapters and journal articles on these topics. His post-doctoral research (Habilitation) examined the postwar fate of Nazis, Holocaust perpetrators and the institutions, particularly, the
International Committee of the Red Cross
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, the
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, and the
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, that aided in their escape from Europe. The result of this research came out as a book, '' Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice''. This academic book was published in several languages with the English edition put out by Oxford University Press in 2011. The book was recently awarded the 2011
National Jewish Book Award
The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice'', Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York 2011, .
* (together with Aram Mattioli, ed.), ''Für den Faschismus bauen: Architektur und Städtebau im Italien Mussolinis'', Orell Fuessli Verlag, Zuerich 2009, .
* (together with Hans-Guenter Richardi, ed.), ''Für Freiheit und Recht in Europa. Der 20. Juli 1944 und der Widerstand gegen das NS-Regime in Deutschland, Österreich und Südtirol'', Studienverlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2009, .
* ''Nazis auf der Flucht. Wie Kriegsverbrecher über Italien nach Übersee entkamen'', Fischer, Frankfurt/Main 2010, .
* ''Tra Duce, Führer e Negus. L'Alto Adige e la guerra d'Abissinia 1935–1941'', Temi, Trento 2008.
* ''Zwischen Duce, Führer und Negus. Südtirol und der Abessinienkrieg 1935–1941'', Athesia, Bozen 2006, .
* ''The Cape of Last Hope: The Flight of Nazi War Criminals through Italy to South America'', in Klaus Eisterer,
Günter Bischof
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(ed.), ''Transatlantic Relations. Austria and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Century'' (Transatlantica 1) New Brunswick 2006, pp. 203–224.
* ''Im Schatten der Geheimdienste. Südtirol 1918 bis zur Gegenwart'', Studienverlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2003, .
* ''Südtirol und die Geheimdienste 1943–1945'', Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2000, .
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