We are accustomed to traditional images of people's avengers, despicable traitors and fascist invaders committing unimaginable atrocities on the territory of the Soviet Union occupied during the Great Patriotic War. But what were these people really like? How did they live, fight and die during that terrible time? The author talks about the tragedy of war and occupation on the basis of new archival documents and answers many questions that historians have previously avoided close attention.