Sybille Steinbacher

Sybille Steinbacher (born 1966) is a historian. After studying in Munich, she worked at the universities of Bochum, Jena, Harvard, and Frankfurt am Main. Her research focuses on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust, as well as the social history of the sexual revolution in West Germany. Her publications include “Model Town” Auschwitz: Germanization Policies and the Murder of Jews in Upper Silesia (2000), Auschwitz: History and Aftermath (2004), How Sex Came to Germany (2011), and A Crime Without a Name (2022, with Saul Friedländer, Norbert Frei, and Dan Diner). Auschwitz: History and Aftermath has been translated into several languages.