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Wera Frydtberg Wera Frydtberg (11 August 1926 – 16 June 2008) was a German film actress, film and television actress. She appeared in ''I Often Think of Piroschka'' (1955) Her best known film ''Wir Wunderkinder'' (known in English as ''Aren’t We Wonderful?'' ...

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Scholarship *Bayerischer Habilitationsförderpreis , website = Karina Urbach is a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

with a special interest in the Nazi period (1933–45). She has written several books on 19th and 20th century European political and cultural history. Urbach is currently researching American intelligence operations against the

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in wartime and postwar.

Education and career

Urbach was a Kurt Hahn Scholar at the

where she took her MPhil in

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(1992) and her PhD in history (1996). For her German

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she was awarded the Bavarian Ministry of Culture prize. She taught at the

, was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London (2004-2009) and thereafter at the

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. Urbach is a board member of the Otto-von-Bismarck Foundation. In 2015 she became a long term visitor at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

, Princeton, New Jersey. In 2015 Urbach took part in uncovering a 1934 film clip of the British royal family making the

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.< She has since then been campaigning with ''

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'' and ''

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'' for the release of

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material from the royal archives. In 2020 she published ''Das Buch Alice'' (''Alice's Book).'' The story of her grandmother Alice Urbach, a Jewish chef in Vienna whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis. Karina Urbach discovered that Alice was not the only Jewish author who had been replaced by an ‘Aryan’ stooge. Alice never saw her book published again under her name, but in 2020 the German magazine Der Spiegel ran a story about the findings of ''Alice's Book''. As a consequence, Alice's publishing house issued a reprint. The English language version of ''Alice's Book'' appeared in May 2022, published by

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and translated by

Jamie Bulloch Jamie Bulloch (born 6 September 1969) is a British historian and translator of German literature. Life and work Jamie was born at East Dulwich Hospital in 1969. He grew up in Tooting, south-west London, attending first Rosemead School, then Wh ...

. Urbach has worked as historical adviser on many

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Education and career

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