The consequential year 2001 with 9/11. The attack on the World Trade Center shaped global events and flooded the world with images. What do the numerous witnesses of the crime say? What do the firefighters, doctors, and paramedics who were on the scene early on say? But there are also other stories from those days. They find their continuation or their end: the story of the con artist Gert Postel or that of the financial fraudster Jürgen Harksen. The case of Gustl Mollath, who innocently fell first into the clutches of the judiciary and then into the hands of incompetent psychiatrists - all because he could no longer accept and endure the bank's complicity in tax evasion by the super-rich and a bank employee, his wife. Then there’s the fight against windmills led by Lübeck's chief public prosecutor Wille in the investigation into the mysterious death of Uwe Barschel. The tragic kidnapping story of ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch, who at 13 is still hidden away by her abductor. The kids of the old ’68 generation have long since passed through puberty, just like their music: the songs of the Stones, the music of Led Zeppelin and ABBA. Musical taste, language, and social behavior change. Time does not stand still, and it is certainly not quiet. Stefan Koenig provides a new, exciting, and informative picture of the eventful period between September 2001 and mid-2004.