{{Short description|German journalist (born 1960)}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2011}} {{Infobox person | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|05|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = Frankfurt, West Germany | occupation = Historian, journalist }} '''Gabriele Alexandra Lesser''' (born 16 May 1960 in Frankfurt am Main) is a historian<ref name="Müller2009">{{cite journal|last=Müller|first=Jan-Werner|year=2009|title=Just another Vergangenheitsbewältigung? The Process of Coming to Terms with the East German Past Revisited|journal=Oxford German Studies|volume=38|issue=3|pages=334–344|issn=0078-7191|doi=10.1179/007871909x475634|s2cid=143333956|quote=For a summary of mocking, yet ultimately positive, perspectives, see Gabriele Lesser, 'Bewältigung nach DIN-Norm', ....}}</ref> and journalist,<ref name="HedegaardLindstrom2000">{{cite book|last1=Hedegaard|first1=Lars|last2=Lindstrom|first2=B|title=The Nebi Yearbook 1999: North European and Baltic Sea Integration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TuhvUlkmtJ8C&pg=PA158|accessdate=10 April 2011|date=2000-01-07|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-540-66407-9|page=158}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=atbwCbmXwyUo&refer=germany|title=Polish Government Condemns 'Vulgar' German Newspaper Article|last=Andrusz -|first=Katya|date=5 July 2006|work=Bloomberg|accessdate=10 April 2011}}</ref> who specializes in the history of World War II and the occupation of Poland, the Baltic countries, and Ukraine 1939–1945.

As Warsaw-based correspondent of newspapers published in Germany (Die Tageszeitung), Austria (Der Standard), and Switzerland (Tages-Anzeiger) she publishes regularly news and analysis about Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Kaliningrad oblast. She wrote and edited several books about the contemporary Poland, the history of the Underground University in Kraków in World War II and a guidebook about Masuria and the Masurian Lake District.

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