German artist Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, yet she inextricably linked her citizenship with the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities. Nora knew little about her family's involvement in World War II: although all of her grandparents survived the war, they never spoke of it. Only after twenty years of living abroad did Nora realize the need to ask questions she hadn't dared to voice as a child. Returning to Germany and poring over archives, family photo albums, and letters, she learned the stories of Willi, her maternal grandfather, who was forced to join the Nazi Party, and Franz-Karl, her father's brother, who volunteered for the SS and died as a teenager in Italy.

In her unique graphic essay, Nora blurs the lines between comics, scrapbooking, and collage, attempting to understand some of the most tragic events of the 20th century, her family's role in them, and the sense of shame that continues to be passed down from generation to generation of Germans.