Joachim von Ribbentrop was Adolf Hitler's foreign policy advisor and was sentenced to death on October 1, 1946, at the Nuremberg Trials of the major war criminals. The societal collapse at the end of Weimar and the unleashing of the Second World War seem distant and part of the past. But they are not. Precisely the same dynamics are present and powerful again today. Almost 80 years later, his grandson, Dominik von Ribbentrop, journeys through the roller coasters and haunted houses of German and European history and the psyche to analyze the patterns behind these events and to identify constants. His book is an important contribution to ensuring that we Germans do not once again drive our country, which today is once again more driven by ideology than by pragmatism, into the ground.