- Gerald Steinacher
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birthdate = 1970
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website = http://www.steinacher.itGerald Steinacher (Dr. phil.), Austrian-Italian historian; born 1970; Academic and historian at the Bolzano State Archives in Italy and Adjunct Professor on contemporary history at the Universities of Innsbruck and Munich. [http://www.uibk.ac.at/zeitgeschichte/mitarbeiterinnen.html.de] [http://www.amerikanistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/mitarbeiter/steinacher/index.html] In 2006, he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies [http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/fellows/fellow_detail.php?projectyear=2006&fellow=steinacher] at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. In 2008, he published his Habilitation, Nazis on the Run ( [http://www.steinacher.it Nazis auf der Flucht] ), on the escape of war criminals through Italy to overseas (see alsoRatlines (history) ).Professor Gerald Steinacher [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Steinacher] presently serves as an expert consultant for the Italian Military Justice in the prosecution of war criminals and for the German Foreign Office Commission of Historians.Publications
* "Nazis auf der Flucht. Wie Kriegsverbrecher über Italien nach Übersee entkamen 1946-1955", StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4026-1
* "Zwischen Duce, Führer und Negus. Südtirol und der Abessinienkrieg 1935-1941", Bozen 2006, ISBN 978-88-8266-399-5
* "Im Schatten der Geheimdienste. Südtirol 1918 bis zur Gegenwart", Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2003, ISBN 978-3-7065-1644-0
* "Südtirol und die Geheimdienste 1943–1945", Innsbruck 2000, ISBN 3-7065-1346-3
* "The Cape of Last Hope: The Flight of Nazi War Criminals through Italy to South America", in: Klaus Eisterer, Günter Bischof (Ed.), Transatlantic Relations. Austria and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Century (Transatlantica 1) New Brunswick 2006, p. 203-224References
* The Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Austria, 1940-1945 in [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ujic/2002/00000015/00000002/art00004;jsessionid=5p82r6g22c7va.alexandra International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence] , Volume 15, Number 2, 1 April 2002 , pp. 211-221(11).
External links
* [http://www.steinacher.it Homepage of Gerald Steinacher]
* [http://www.uibk.ac.at/zeitgeschichte/ Institut for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck]
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