<Tr> <Th> Influences </Th> <Td> Karl Marx </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Influenced </Th> <Td> Gabriel Kolko </Td> </Tr> <P> Arno Joseph Mayer (born June 19, 1926) is a Luxembourg - born American historian who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton - Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University . </P> <P> Mayer was born in 1926 into a Jewish family that fled to the United States during the Nazi invasion of Luxembourg in May 1940 . He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1944; that same year he was drafted into the United States Army and served as an intelligence officer . He eventually became a morale officer for high - ranking German prisoners of war . He received his education at the City College of New York, the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and Yale University . He has been professor at Wesleyan University (1952--53), Brandeis University (1954--58) and Harvard University (1958--61). He has taught at Princeton University since 1961 . </P>

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