We Create

Sketch of the St. Nicholas Church in Hamburg, Germany

We Destroy
Destruction of the St. Nikolas Church in the great fire of May 1842

We Rebuild
Reconstruction of the St. Nicholas Church 1868

We Vanquish the Enemy
An Avro Lancaster Photographed above Hamburg during a bomb raid
Bomb raids begin: July 1943
Bomb raids end: April 1945

We Leave in our Wake
Photograph taken over Hamburg in 1944

Consequences..
The St. Nicholas Church stands in it's original condition after the 1943-45 bomb raids Very little remains besides the original spire that stood as the world's tallest building until the beginning of the 15th Century, and the burned stones that once made up walls

We Cry
Statue in the courtyard of the monument that sits on a pile of bricks brought in from concentration camps around Hamburg
"There is no man on earth that can change the truth, he can only find it and serve it"
Quote engraved on a plate on the otherside of the sculpture not shown