Table of Contents
Preface viii
1 Prisoner! 1
Gorodischtsche: the collecting point for prisoners from the northern cauldron 4
The First Stages: Barbukin, Bol-Rossoschka 7
The Road of Death 10
In Kissel-Jakov Transit Camp 13
A Second Death March 16
A Ravine of Death 22
Back in Stalingrad 23
In the Beketovka Club 29
From Beketovka to Kissner 31
A Third March of Death 34
The Monastery Camp at Jelabuga 37
Typhus 41
2 The Emigrants and the National Committee Freies Deutschland 48
Arrested as Leader of a Band of Conspirators 51
Further as 'Conspiracy Leader' 53
From Nunnery Camp to Kama Camp 56
Block II 59
Block VI 63
The First Hunger Strike 64
A Spy is Exposed 67
A Summer in Isolation 69
The Dispute in the Church 73
Back in Block VI 84
Under the Terror of the League of German Officers 88
The Announcement of Germany's Unconditional Surrender at Nunnery Camp in Jelabuga 92
3 A White Slave of the Twentieth Century 94
The Woodland Camp of Xiltau (Kosiltau) 95
The Flour and Brick Trip 101
Winter in Xiltau Woodland Camp, 1945/6 103
Back to the Main Camp 109
In Seloni-Dolsk Camp 111
On a Collective Farm 115
On the Volga Ice 117
Christmas 1946 and its Consequences 119
Via the Main Camp from Seloni-Dolsk to Muni Camp 122
From Seloni-Dolsk to Saporoschje 127
In the Punishment Section of Camp 7100/2 130
The Heroes' Cellar 137
The Sawod Komunar 140
In Camp 7100/6: the assembling of the 'Black Sheep' 148
4 Under Investigation for Refusing to Work 152
Before the War Tribunal 154
In the Rayon Prison of Saporoschje 158
In Charkov Transit Prison 165
On the Way to Siberian Banishment 169
In the Banishment Camps of the 'Angarlag' west of Lake Baikal 175
Under False Suspicion 181
In the 205th Column 182
Strange Encounter in the Taiga 188
A Friend Falls by the Roadside 191
An Unsuccessful Escape Attempt 196
There is No Exploitation of People by People in the Soviet Union 198
58 Degrees Cold 203
As Factotum in the Ambulatorium 208
5 The Journey Home 211
Is This Really the Journey Home? 218
The Big Leap! 219
The Last Stage 220
On German Soil 221
'Tell the Truth' 222