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The Three Country Corner is still marked by the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, even if the traces are often only visible at a second glance. The "land of flowing borders" between Aachen, Liège, and Maastricht played an important yet dark role in both World Wars. Countless "non-places" remain in the territory of three countries - Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Journalist Alexander Barth has revisited and documented 50 of them. Unusual, overlooked, underestimated, eerie - these attributes still define the titular term eight years after the release of the first volume. "Non-places" are memorial sites and locations that tell the history and stories of a time that seems unreal from today's perspective - from world-changing events to tragic individual fates. They are also places where the challenge of a contemporary culture of remembrance and commemoration is revealed today.