Among the texts examined here, Uta-Maria Heim’s crime novel Feierabend (2011) presents the most radical attempt to demonstrate that the notion or ideal of knowing “what really happened” is a fantasy (in the psychoanalytic sense of the term). The focus of her novel is the euthanasia program the Nazis initiated in 1940. Heim’s argument is not that this atrocity didn’t occur, but rather that the sheer scale of the crime makes it impossible to fully comprehend or come to terms with. The processes of discovering what happened and remembering are ones that can never provide definitive answers; instead, they require a lifelong effort of working through and grappling with the past.