A visitor to Harburg (a suburb of Hamburg) seeking the Mahnmal gegen Faschismus (Monument Against Fascism) by Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev Gerz will find no more than an informative plaque – a text explaining the project and nine small images of its realisation. The plaque is situated next to a shaft, into which the monument, a column faced with lead sheeting, was progressively sunk in eight stages during the six years of its realisation between 10th October 1986 and 10th November 1993. At Harburg the concept of sculpture merges into that of the monument (Mahnmal), to refuse the unity and historical trajectory which are the monument’s standard content. Instead, it reminds local people and visitors that fascism was produced by individuals at all social levels, and is not entirely encapsulated in the past.