Karina Urbach is a German historian with a special interest in the Nazi period.
10 Facts About Karina Urbach
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Karina Urbach has written several books on 19th and 20th century European political and cultural history.
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Karina Urbach was a Kurt Hahn Scholar at the University of Cambridge where she took her MPhil in International Relations and her PhD in history.
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Karina Urbach taught at the University of Bayreuth, was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London and thereafter at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
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In 2015 Karina Urbach took part in uncovering a 1934 film clip of a young princess Elizabeth making the Nazi salute.
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Karina Urbach has since then been campaigning with The Times and The Guardian for the release of Interwar period material from the royal archives.
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Karina Urbach discovered that Alice was not the only Jewish author who had been replaced by an 'Aryan' stooge.
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Karina Urbach has worked as historical adviser on many BBC, PBS and German TV documentaries.
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Karina Urbach has contributed articles to the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Literary Review, Die Zeit, Die Frankfurter Allgemeine and Die Tageszeitung.
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In 2017 Karina Urbach published the historical novel Cambridge 5 under the pseudonym Hannah Coler.