The exhibition developed in Berlin on the occasion of the referendum “Deutsche Wohnen & Co. expropriate” therefore embarks on a historical search for clues: When were demands for expropriation made? How were they implemented? Who was expropriated, who wanted to expropriate and who protested against or in favor of it? The concept of expropriation is examined in a historically ambivalent way - both as an emancipatory demand for justice by social movements of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and as an authoritarian tool of dictatorial systems.