A Tale of Memories. The years 1930-1955 - a path prepared by fate; sometimes incredible and nevertheless really lived. Memories of the most significant, but little known events at the front and deep behind enemy lines, events deliberately distorted or hushed them up. About the tragedy near Kharkov in the spring of 1942, about the Sumy underground, about the camps and factories of Krupp in Essen and their destruction on the night of January 1943 by Allied aircraft. The story of reconnaissance, battles and captivity. On escapes and participation in the movement of the German and Austrian Resistance. A collision with SMERSH counterintelligence, which turned out to be cooler than a collision with the Vienna GESTAPO. The vicissitudes of fate and the difficult path of returning to life.