!!!Karner, Stefan

Karner, Stefan, b. St. Jakob bei Voelkermarkt, Carinthia, Dec. 
18, 1952, historian. Studied history and Slavic languages and 
literature at the University of Graz, where he became a teaching 
assistant in 1977 and was appointed professor in 1993. Since that year 
also head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War 
Consequences (Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut fuer Kriegsfolgen-Forschung) 
in Graz and Vienna, since 1995 Austrian representative in the Council 
of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance and 
since 1997 Austrian representative (with P. Pelinka) in the EU's 
European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia in Vienna. Among 
his research interests are the history of National Socialism and the 
fate of Austrian prisoners of war as reflected in Soviet archives.

!Works
Die Steiermark im Dritten Reich, 1986; Als Mitteleuropa 
zerbrach, 1990; Gefangen in Russland, 1995; Beuteakten aus 
Oesterreich, 1996 (with G. Jagschitz); Im Archipel GUPVI. 
Kriegsgefangenschaft und Internierung in der Sowjetunion 1941-1956, 
1995; Die deutschsprachige Volksgruppe in Slowenien, 1998; Die 
Steiermark. im 20. Jahrhundert, 2000.


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