After the collapse of the Third Reich, beaten German generals tried to shift all the blame for both war crimes and 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 Nazi 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 Hitler's Reich and presenting the modern German point of view on a wide range of issues - from the strategic and political aspects of the Second World War, weapons production, military confrontation on the Eastern Front to the racist elements in Nazi propaganda against The USSR and the tragic fate of Soviet prisoners of war. “One can argue with the points of view expressed by German historians, but one thing is certain: they were expressed by people who well understood the realities of the country that was the enemy of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War...” (Alexey Isaev, Candidate of Historical Sciences) In PDF format The publishing layout of the book is saved in A4.