If walls could talk. When the artist Gregor Schneider learned that a house near his own birthplace had once been the home of the notorious Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, he bought it. A history and politics aficionado, Schneider analyzed its contents and then methodically demolished everything, documenting every step. Through an artist’s lens, a glimpse into the interiors that for a time housed one of history’s monsters. —E.C.