The German partisan movement (“Werwolf”) for some time remained a closed page for the domestic reader. Numerous volunteers who fought after the surrender of Germany against the Red Army and the Allies remained for a long time in the public consciousness as fanatics who preferred to die for the collapsed Nazi regime. This book allows us to answer who and how got into the German Werwolf partisan movement. Were they fanatics blinded by ideology, or unwilling participants who, due to circumstances, could not choose a peaceful life.