Based on archival materials from Russian security agencies, the collection for the first time attempts to talk about people who, against their will, became hostages of the ideological system of National Socialism, and about well-known and little-known events of which they were participants and eyewitnesses. The collection publishes archival materials for the first time documents from the archival investigative files of Field Marshals E. von Kleist, F. Schörner, Colonel General R. Schmidt and other famous military leaders of the Third Reich. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers and specialists interested in the history of the first half of the 20th century.