The famous dictum "Sow the wind - reap the storm" could become an epigraph to the book of the famous modern German author Gunther Beddeker, which tells about the little-known side of World War II. Before you is a detailed story about the suffering of ordinary Germans, who have learned all the horrors of war. These people were not war criminals, did not serve in the SS troops, and indeed were not military at all. After the defeat of the Nazis, fifteen million German citizens had the fate of becoming refugees and exiles in fear of the impending Red Army.