This film by Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel represents a homage to a man revered internationally as one of the great humanitarians of the 20th century. Raul Hilberg and other intellectuals also perceive him as a philosopher, although his primary work for many decades was the investigation of Nazi criminals. In a society which, since the holocaust, has largely accepted repression of its own history, remembering appears as an art, as an ever-repeating necessary process which permanently borders on social taboo. Thus Simon Wiesenthal, in his capacity as survivor, describes his mission in relation to those murdered as "remembering as a duty", he gives his life to the service of truth. For "anyone who denies the crimes and genocide of the past is opening up the way for the murders of the future".