Anselm Kiefer's 2001 work Die Ungeborenen anchors this Yale lecture from the course Let This Be a Lesson, which examines how art responds to historical trauma. The instructor traces Kiefer's engagement with myth and science as ways of processing twentieth century German history, and situates his work against earlier attempts by modern artists to revive historical consciousness after catastrophe. The lecture asks whether history painting, a genre built for commemorating rulers and battles, can still carry moral weight in contemporary conditions, or whether artists like Kiefer have had to reinvent the form entirely. Running seventy one minutes, the talk moves through specific images and materials in Kiefer's practice, connecting them to broader questions about memory, guilt, and representation after the two World Wars. It is a close reading of one artist's work used to open a wider argument about art's capacity to make sense of historical rupture.