In the spring of 1945, the dying Third Reich lay in ruins. The Wehrmacht tried with all its might to hold on to the collapsing front. There was not enough fuel and ammunition. Even old people and teenagers were put under arms. The author of this book, Helmut Altner, was only 17 years old when he and his peers were drafted into the army. On April 16, 1945, young soldiers who did not have time to undergo military training came under a crushing blow from the Red Army, which began the assault on Berlin. Untrained recruits were killed in the first battle - Altner was the only one among them who was lucky enough to survive. Together with the remnants of his company, he retreated into the city and fought for another ten days in the tunnels of the Berlin subway, participated in the desperate battles for Spandau and the Imperial Stadium, and in the last attempt of the remnants of the garrison to break through to the west. And again Altner was lucky - he did not perish in the bloody hell of street fighting, did not die under the tracks of Soviet tanks and the hurricane fire that mowed down the retreating Germans in the thousands. Slightly wounded in the leg, Altner surrendered to Russian soldiers... These memoirs, written immediately after the war, are rightfully considered one of the best books about the last days of the Third Reich. This is a frank story of a man who miraculously survived the Berlin “Dance of Death”. This is the terrible truth about the battle for Berlin.