Dr Debbie Gayle Lackerstein

I am a graduate of the University of Adelaide where I completed a PhD in French history. I came to UNSW, Canberra in 1988 and have taught a large number of courses in Modern, mainly European History.

Research Interests

The Second World War

• Occupied Europe, 1939-1945
• The Holocaust

French History

• Vichy France
• Resistance and Collaboration
• Intellectual and history of the 1930s and 1940s
• National Identity
• Right wing thought and activist groups

Genocide

• Comparative Genocide
• Liberation of the Camps
• Trauma

My current research project examines different perspectives on the liberation of the camps in the final stages of the European war, 1945 and I continue to write on France and issues of national identity.

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