Franz Wanner is interested in the gap between reality and self-representation of the Federal Republic of Germany. To this end, he researches its history and closely examines how it is embellished, sanitized, and utilized for present-day purposes. The exploitation of labor is the central theme of his exhibition at the Lenbachhaus: under Nazism, forced labor was widespread in all areas of society. The recruitment agreements with Italy, Turkey, Greece, and Yugoslavia starting in the mid-1950s were founded in part on the extensive structures of Nazi forced labor. As a result, people who were recruited from 1955 onwards and moved to Germany were partly housed in former Nazi barracks, which were referred to as “guest worker camps”; the legal basis for the agreements was based on a Nazi decree from 1938.