The book publishes documents revealing the tragic pages of the history of the German people in the USSR. Not only deportation, but also the forced mobilization of the German population in the 1940s. in labor armies, working columns and battalions left a detrimental mark on the fate of the Soviet Germans. The documents presented in the collection, kept for a long time under the heading "top secret," memories are also an impassively recorded chronicle of the dramatic history of the Germans.