Book summary

This is the story of a house in Potsdam, which sits at the end of the Glienecke Bridge. The house once belonged to a family of Jewish bankers. The Nazis and later the Red Army came through it. It became symbolic during the Cold War when the bridge--which spanned the frontier between West Berlin and East Germany--was used for the exchange of spies, so it was the first or last building behind the Iron Curtain the spies saw. The author tells the story of the conflicting claims on the house after the Iron Curtain fell. At the time of the book's publication, the fate of the house at the bridge had yet to be determined.