For the first time in Russian! Unique front-line notes from an officer of the parachute tank division "Hermann Goering". Revelations of a veteran about the horrors of war on the Eastern Front. An amazing fate worthy of an adventurous novel. At the beginning of the war, Karl Knoblauch had the opportunity to fight both in the vanguard of an infantry division and as an air reconnaissance observer, and after being seriously wounded in a battle with Soviet fighters over Vyazma, upon recovery he was sent to the parachute tank division "Hermann Goering", where in just a few months he made a dizzying career - from platoon commander to battalion commander. And if not for the wound that opened, Knoblauch should have died with the remnants of his unit in Berlin, but he was sent out of the city just a few hours before the Soviet troops closed the encirclement... This book is an amazing testimony of a veteran who miraculously survived the terrible massacre of the East front, a frank story about the agony of the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe, about the defeat and fall of the Third Reich.