This work is based on documents stored in the archives of the National Institute of Holocaust and Heroes of the Resistance, Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem, as well as testimonies, conversations, memoirs, letters from former prisoners of war and their relatives from the author’s archive. Most of the documents and materials are published for the first time. The book is deliberately rich in factual material and many names. Perhaps thanks to this, someone will learn about their missing loved ones. The goal is to restore, at least to a small extent, part of the truth about captivity. Partly because we, living today, will never be able to understand the whole tragedy of the Great War, the grief and trials that the survivors of this catastrophe went through. None of the works of any kind of art: literature, cinema, theater, painting - have been said or they will say no will be able to convey the whole truth about the war. Here the writer's pen, the painter's brush are powerless. CONTENTS: Volume I◦About the author◦Annotation◦PrefaceBOOK I. Prisoners of war of the Western countries of the anti-Hitler coalition in Nazi captivity.◦Introduction◦Organization and creation of prisoner of war camps in Nazi Germany. Chapter 1. Captivity. The beginning of the way. Chapter 2. Oflags. Stalags. Chapter 3. Use of the labor of prisoners of war. Chapter 4. Escapes and punishments. Chapter 5. Murders of prisoners of war. Chapter 6. Jews in the armies of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition. BOOK II. Soviet prisoners of war in German captivity. Part I. Why more than 5 million Soviet soldiers and officers ended up in Nazi captivity.◦Introduction Chapter 1. Chronicle of defeats. Chapter 2. Military-organizational reasons. Chapter 3. Socio-political reasons. Chapter 4. Subjective psychological factors. Chapter 5. Everyone has their own path. Part II. Les Miserables Chapter 1. Camps, camps... Chapter 2. Officers in captivity. Chapter 3. Camp police. Chapter 4. Medicine of death. Chapter 5. Women prisoners of war. Documents and applications. List of abbreviations. Sources and literature used. Name index. Geographical index.II Vol. Soviet Jewish soldiers in German captivity Part I. Jews in the Red Army 1918-1940. and during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Chapter 1. Jews in the Red Army during the Civil War of 1918-1922. Chapter 2. Jews in the Red Army during the period between the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. 1923–1940 Chapter 3. Jewish military personnel during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Chapter 4. Evaluation of military labor - combat awards Chapter 5. The problem of Jewish military units in the Red Army. Chapter 6. Latvian (Latvian) rifle division. Chapter 7. 16th Lithuanian Division. Part II. A special war is a war against Jews. Chapter 1. “Order on Commissars” - the legal basis for the extermination of Soviet Jewish prisoners of war Chapter 2. From theory to practice: Einsatzgruppen and their activities. Chapter 3. Cooperation between the SS and the Wehrmacht. Chapter 4. Selection on the battlefield and at reception points. Search and extermination of Jews in the camps. Part III. Anti-Semitism in the pre-war and war yearsChapter 1. Soviet anti-Semitism in the pre-war years. Chapter 2. Anti-Semitism during the war years in the rear and at the front. Chapter 3. Anti-Semitism - the basis of German front-line propaganda. Part IV. SalvationChapter 1. Help from comrades... and from the Germans. Chapter 2. Local residents and Jewish prisoners of war. Chapter 3. “Salvation” - collaboration with the Nazis. Part V. FatesInstead of an afterword Documents and appendices. List of abbreviations. Sources and literature used Name index Geographical index