Draws from documents declassified over fifty years after the end of World War II to describe and analyze the degree to which the Nazis planned and improvised the Holocaust, the attitudes and participation of ordinary Germans in the killings, and the Western allies' knowledge of and reaction to the extermination of the Jews.
The post-camp relics are protected by the Museum created in 1947. The Memorial today is i.a. the Archive and Collections as well as research, conservation and publishing center.