In this article the editor of the magazine discusses the impact of memory on history. He is writing in light of the 2006 revelation by German novelist Günter Grass that he was, in his youth, a member of the Waffen-SS. The October 2006 issue contains a memoir by a participant in the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the Soviet occupiers. The editor suggests that the task of the historian is to collect memories and assemble them into historical fact.