After the fall of the Third Reich, beaten German generals tried to shift all the blame for war crimes and for the defeat of the Wehrmacht onto the Nazi leadership and Hitler personally - curses against the “possessed Fuhrer”, his “fatal decisions” and “ fatal mistakes” that allegedly predetermined the outcome of the war and the defeat of Germany. However, this common myth, picked up by Western propaganda, not only simplifies the true picture of events, reducing real history to ideological cliches, but also belittles the feat of the Soviet people, who won a well-deserved victory over a strong, intelligent and skillful enemy. This book presents the works of leading German historians, which decisively refute propaganda cliches, revealing the real, not fictitious reasons for the defeat of the Reich and presenting the German point of view on the course of the armed struggle and the results of the Second World War.