- in 1979: received
a B.A. in physics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut
- he then studied Art History
and History at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Hamburg
in Germany.
- 1986: received M.A.
in History of Art from Hamburg University with a thesis about
memorials commemorating the National Socialist period.
- In 1984-85 he co-produced
an exhibition "Stones of Contention" ("Steine des Anstosses")
comparing the memorials and monuments established in various countries
for the victims of the Holocaust, and the civilian and military dead
of World War II.
- The
photographic exhibition was shown in more than twenty German cities
from 1985 to 1993.
- It became
part of the controversy over US president Ronald Reagan's visits
to Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg in 1985, and the debate over a proposed
national victims memorial in Bonn.
- 1987: Marcuse went
to the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D
in 1992 for a thesis on the history of the Dachau concentration
camp from 1945 to the 1990s.
- Since 1992 he has
been at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he
is now an associate professor in the field of German History.
- His book Legacies
of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp,
1933-2001" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2001.
It combines a case study of Dachau with an examination of regional and
national-level West German confrontations with the legacies of Nazism.
- This book won the 2003
Hans Rosenberg Book Prize of the Conference Group for Central European
History, for the best monograph on Central European history published
in 2001-02.
- Marcuse's other
publications include essays and articles on how and why events
of the Nazi and World War II eras have been represented in numerous
countries.
- The focus of his research
has been how different groups in Germany have dealt or "come to
terms" with the legacies of the Nazi era, and what effects that
process has had and is having on the political culture of Germany.
- Marcuse is also examining
the middle- and longer term effects of various types of education
about the Nazi era.
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