Born in 1965, read history and German literature at Munich and Princeton Universities from 1984-1991, dissertation In Munich on the Jewish satellite camps Kaufering and Mühldorf in 1991, German Academic Exchange Lecturer at University of Durham, England, 1991-1995, researcher at the Institute for Contemporary history in Munich since 1999, "Habilitation" 2012 at Augsburg university with a study on the West German administration of justice and the West German prosecution of Nazi criminals, 1945-1949. Several publication on concentration camps, Jewish survivors after 1945, prosecution of Nazi crimes.