At the end of World War II, Hitler put virtually the entire male population of Germany under arms, from teenagers to old men - untrained, poorly armed, mortally afraid, they were thrown to slaughter, under the tracks of Soviet tanks. One of these Todeskandidaten (suicide bombers) conscripted into the Volkssturm in the final months of the war was 43-year-old East Prussian farmer Paul Born. He was never a true Nazi, but he had to defend the Hitler regime with arms in hand, going through all the circles of front-line hell and the painful Todeskampf (agony) of the Third Reich. On January 3, 1945, his unit came under a crushing blow from the Red Army and was crushed and defeated and destroyed in a matter of days. A bloody nightmare of hopeless battles and disorderly retreats, Soviet captivity and the post-war “ordeal”, the hell of Polish camps and the escape to the West - in his bitter book, Born frankly spoke about the fall of the Third Reich and the monstrous price that the German people paid for their involvement in crimes Nazi regime.