title: Marlis G. Steinert
text: # Marlis G. Steinert
  
  Marlis Steinert (born Marlis Gertrud Johanna Dalmer; 1922–2005) was a German historian.
  
  Steinert obtained her doctorate degree from the University of the Sarre, under the supervision of Jean-Baptiste Duroselle in 1956. She then assisted historian Jacques Freymond with his research for the book "Le conflit sarrois, 1945-1955".
  
  She then became a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, where she taught until her retirement in 1988.
  
  She participated in the founding of the journal Relations internationales in 1972, and took the co-presidency of the editorial committee with Pierre Guillen in 1982. She left her place to Pierre Du Bois in 1998.
  
  ## Work
  
  Steiner researched the history of Nazi Germany, publishing among other things a biography of Adolf Hitler. In her work, she argued that the German population was unaware of the immensity of the atrocities committed against the Jews.
  
  She also studied and taught international relations, particularly the foreign policies of the United States and Japan.
  
  ## Private life
  
  She married the doctor and photographer Otto Steinert in 1943.
  
  