Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (born 5 March 1952,

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) is an Austrian social scientist and historian. She was the director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance and deputy chairwoman of the . Bailer-Galanda is an honorary professor of contemporary history at the

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. Bailer-Galanda's research focuses on German resistance to Nazism, the

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and its denial, and .

Early life

Brigitte Bailer-Galanda was born on 5 March 1952 in

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Education

Bailer-Galanda enrolled in the in 1970 and studied sociology and economics. She graduated four years later. From 1990 to 1992, she underwent doctoral studies under Erika Weinzierl's direction at the

Career

Bailer-Galanda became an assistant researcher at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 1979. In 1994, she was made a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. There she completed a

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in 2003 with the thesis ''The Origin of Restitution Laws'' (''Die Entstehung der Rückstellungsgesetze''), for which she was named an honorary professor of contemporary history. The next year, Bailer-Galanda succeeded as director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 2004 and was herself succeeded in 2014 by .

Awards

* 1992: Käthe Leichter Prize for the study of women's history in Austria * 1996: for antifascist journalism in Austria * 1999: from the * 2013: Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (speech by ) * 2015: Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien

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