Book by Doctor of Historical Sciences, leading researcher at the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg M.V. Shkarovsky is devoted to a complex and little-studied topic: the Russian Orthodox Church in the occupied territories during the Second World War. As numerous archival documents testify, not a single part or jurisdiction of the Russian Church began to cooperate with the Nazis. The Nazi departments did not even manage to completely subjugate and make the Orthodox diocese on German territory their obedient instrument. The split in the Russian Orthodox Church, expected by the leaders of the Third Reich, also did not occur.