- I'm adding some of the research papers I wrote as a student in Germany. They weren't published in print journals, but several have what I think are important research results that aren't available elsewhere.
- Baugeschichte des Basler Münsters, Universität Freiburg, Oktober 1979 (Prof. Ernst Adam), 38 page pdf. [added 8/27/2012]
See also the architectural history at: baslermuenster.ch/bauwerk/baugeschichte.
- Die Deckenfresken der Klosterkirche St. Peter im Schwarzwald: Ein Zyklus über das Leben des hl. Petrus, Universität Freiburg, März 1981 (Prof. H. Wischermann), 31 page pdf. [added 8/27/2012]
- Die Kathedrale Notre-Dame zu Paris: Der Bau des 12. Jahrhunderts, Universität München (Prof. Berhard Schütz), Mai 1983. 24 text pages, 6 Seiten Anmerkungen & Bibliografie, 11 Seiten Abbildungen. I put these in separate files to make reading online easier [added 2/12/2011]
- Widerstandsrecht und Gehorsamspflicht im späten 16. Jahrhundert in Schottland: George Buchanan "De iure regni apud Scotos" (1579) und James VI von Schottland, "Trew Law of Free Monarchies" (1598)--'De vero iure regni apud Scotos', Universität München (Prof. A. Seifert), August 1983, 40 page pdf; dreiseitiges Thesenpapier. [added 8/27/2012]
- "Die befreiten KZ-Häftlinge in der Nachkriegszeit," Referat Uni Hamburg, Feb. 1984, 19 pages (with Thesenpaper, Dec. 1982, and 2 pages of handwritten notes from StaHH). [added 2/9/2011]
- Steine
des Anstosses:
Nationalsozialismus und Zweiter Weltkrieg in Denkmalen, 1945-1985
(Hamburg: Museum for the History of Hamburg, 1985); co-authored
with Frank Schimmelfennig and Jochen Spielmann.
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- "Bemerkungen
zum 'Mahnmal für die Opfer von Krieg und Gewaltherrschaft' in Bonn,"
in: Freimuth Duwe (ed.), Kulturheft 3, (Bonn: Kunst und Kultur,
1985), pp. 87-89.
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- Expert testimony at a public hearing about the planned Bonn national
victims' memorial.
- The exhibition "Stones of Contention"
(see item 1, above) was displayed in the hearing
room.
- Master's
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photograph
of Hamburg monument in 1983 |
thesis: "The
Commemoration of those Persecuted under National Socialism: The 'Monument
to the Victims of National Socialist Persecution and the Resistance
Struggle' in Hamburg, 1946-1949." (in German). University of
Hamburg, 1985.
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- "West German Strategies
of Commemoration," in: Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust
Studies 3:2(1987).
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- "Denkmale zwischen
Vergangenheit und Gegenwart," in: Lernort Gemeinde: Beiträge
zur Gemeindepädagogik, 2/1990, pp. 3-5.
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- A short article for a regional church
journal where "Stones of Contention" was being shown.
- "Das
ehemalige Konzentrationslager Dachau: Der mühevolle Weg zur
Gedenkstätte, 1945-1968," in: Dachauer Hefte 6(1990),
182-205. [back
to navbar]
- Dissertation: "Nazi
Crimes and Identity in West Germany: Collective Memories of the Dachau
Concentration Camp, 1945-1990" (University of Michigan, 1992).
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to navbar]
- a much more comprehensive, illustrated version was published in
2001 as a monograph, Legacies of Dachau (see #14,
below)
- UMI order gateway. Go
through two screens to get to the search screen, where it will come
up under title:Dachau, author:Marcuse, or order number:9308392.
- Price in 2005: $36 (may include shipping,
may cost $31 unbound).
- "Die Museale Darstellung
des Holocaust an Orten der ehemaligen Konzentrationslager in der Bundesrepublik,
1945-1990," in: Erinnerung: Zur Gegenwart des Holocaust
in Deutschland West und Deutschland Ost (Frankfurt: Haag and Herchen,
1993), 79-98. [back to navbar]
- A comprehensive chronological overview of how West German concentration
camp museums portrayed "the Holocaust" (Nazi persecution
and atrocities) from 1945 until 1990.
- text without notes
- "Remembering
the White Rose in West Germany, 1943-1993," Soundings
22:9(1994), 25-38. [back to navbar]
- Retraces 50 years of interpretions of the White Rose student anti-Nazi
resistance group.
- full text
- Based on a presentation during an international
conference at UCSB.
- "The
 Revival
of Holocaust Awareness in West Germany, Israel, and the United States"
in: Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, Detlef Junker (eds.), 1968: The
World Transformed (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998),
421-38. [back to navbar]
- "Dachau:
The Political Aesthetics of Holocaust Memorials," in: Peter
Hayes (ed.), Lessons and Legacies III: Memory, Memorialization, and
Denial (Evanston, IL: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1999), 138-168,
278-287. [back to navbar]
- This comprehensive essay discusses the whole range
of events referenced by concentration camp memorials.
- As in my monograph Legacies of Dachau, most examples
are from Dachau, but the scope is much broader.
- Based on my presentation at the 1994 Lessons & Legacies conference,
sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation.
- text without
notes
- scan of table of
contents of volume III
- used in Paul Jaskot's "Art
and the Holocaust" course at Depaul University, Fall 2000.
- "Experiencing
the Jewish Holocaust in Los Angeles: The Beit Hashoah--Museum of Tolerance,"
on-line journal Other Voices, 2:1(2000) [back
to navbar]
- In contrast to most other scholarly assessments of the MOT, I
come to a positive assessment of the museum because of how it achieves
its stated goals with its target audience.
- Begins with a detailed descriptive tour of the museum.
- article available on-line: Other
Voices 2:1(2000).
- richly illustrated, prints on 12-14 pages.
- 2008 renovation completed : 9/28/08
LA Times newspaper article about $13 million makeover of the
musuem that was just completed (not by me, just for future reference).
- "Generational
Cohorts and the
 Shaping
of Popular Attitudes Towards the Holocaust," in: Remembering
for the Future (London: Palgrave: 2001), vol. 3, pp. 652-663.
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- Stand-alone essay summarizes the generation/cohort theory I develop
at the beginning of chapter 12 of my monograph Legacies of Dachau.
(see next item, below)
- 'Remembering for the Future'
conference, Oxford, July 2000.
- text
(with table but without footnotes)
- pdf
version (prints on 6 pages; added 11/09)
- abstract
(2 pages, w/ questions--this was part of the conference program
booklet).
- Legacies
of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001
(Cambridge University Press, 2001). [back
to navbar]
- Memory
to Action! A Guidebook for Commemorating the Holocaust,
co-author with Ralph Daniel (Santa Barbara: Holocaust Home Commemoration
Project, 1999-2003). [back to navbar]
- interactive guidebook for a small group commemorations
- It is based around a shared meal and aims to motivate participants
to participate in activities that promote social justice.
- tested and refined with many groups of participants from diverse
backgrounds
- 1st draft edition, 1999
- 2nd revised edition, 2000
- 3rd completely revised edition, November 2001 (pp. 6-26 by
hm)
- 4th revised edition, January 2003 (pages 1-19, 21-22 by hm)
- scan of 4th ed. table
of contents
- available as pdf from the download page
on the memorytoaction.org
website.
- "Die vernachlässigten
Massengräber: Der Skandal um dem Leitenberg, 1949-50,"
Dachauer Hefte 19(2003), 3-23. [back
to navbar]
- "Reshaping
 Dachau
for Visitors, 1933-2000," in: Greg Ashworth and Rudi Hartmann (eds.),
Horror and Human Tragedy Revisited: The Management of Sites of Atrocities
for Tourism (New York: Cognizant Communications, Sept. 2005), 118-148.
- "Dachau," entry in Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2004,
edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (New York: Thompson/Gale, 2006)
- ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY
- page
scans (with printable pdf)
- "Dachau im Wandel, 1945-2005: Konzeptionen und Ziele der Vermittlung,"
in: Das Konzentrationslager Dachau: Erlebnis, Erinnerung, Geschichte
(Munich: Meidenbauer, 2006), pp. 39-51.
(x page pdf)
(2 page pdf of 12 ppt slides)
- illustrated essay about how the presentation of the camp in the
memorial site has changed over time
- French translation: "Dachau au fil du temps, de 1945 á
2005: Concepts et finalités de la transmission," in:
Anne Bernou-Fieseler et Fabien Théofilakis (eds.), Dachau:
Mémoires et Histoire de la déportation. Regards franc
o-allemands (Paris: Éditions Tirénsias, 2006),
pp. 35-48 (14
page pdf)
- "Memories of the World War II and the Holocaust in Europe,"
in: Gordon Martel (ed.), A Companion to Europe, 1900-1945 (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2006), pp. 487-503.
- "Holocaust
Memorials: The Emergence of a Genre," American
Historical Review, 115:1(Feb. 2010), pp. 53-89, including
34 illustrations.
- "The Afterlife of the Camps," concluding
 chapter in: Jane Caplan and Nikolaus Wachsmann (eds.), Concentration
Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories (New York: Routledge,
2010), pp. 186-211.
- "Memorializing
Persecuted Jews in Dachau and Other West German Concentration
Camp Memorial Sites," in: William Niven and Chloe
Paver (eds.), Memorialization in Germany since 1945 (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 192-204.
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2003 essay about forgotten
mass grave, 1949
