Jörg Wollenberg's project is reminiscent of stages in German history that have so far been insufficiently illuminated and explains which ideas and interests in seizing power that were effective long before 1933 resulted in the state-criminal policies of the "Third Reich" and what lasting burdens this has left on German democracy to this day . The richly illustrated volume is a collection of the extensive material that the author amassed in the course of curating an exhibition at the Ahrensbök Nazi memorial site while following the fates of former Auschwitz inmates in Poland, CSSR and the USA. The project is divided into two volumes: Volume I War of Memories - From Ahrensbök via New York to Auschwitz and back and Volume II The Other Memory - securing evidence of a resistant border crosser.