The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle, with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers disappearing into Soviet captivity. Their fate is rarely described.

1. PRISONER! Gorodischtsche : the collecting point for prisoners from the northern cauldron -- The first stages : Barbukin, Bol-Rossoschka -- The road of death -- In Kissel-Jakov Transit Camp -- A second death march -- Back in Stalingrad -- In the Beketovka to Kissner -- A third march of death -- The Monastery Camp at Jelabuga -- Typus -- 2. THE EMIGRANTS AND THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FREIES DEUTSCHLAND. Arrested as leader of a band of conspirators -- Furthur as 'conspiracy leader' -- From Nunnery Camp to Kama Camp -- Block II -- Block VI -- The first hunger strike -- A spy is exposed -- A summer in isolation -- The Dispute in the church -- Back in Block VI -- Under the terror of the League of German officers -- The announcement of Germany's unconditional surrender at Nunnery Camp in Jelabuga -- 3. A WHITE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The Woodland Camp of Xiltau (Kosiltau) -- The flour and brick trip -- Winter in Xiltau Woodland Camp, 1945/6 -- Back to the Main Camp -- In Seloni-Dolsk Camp -- On a collective farm -- On the Volga Ice -- Christmas 1946 and its consequences -- Via the Main Camp from Seloni-Dolsk to Muni Camp -- From Seloni-Dolsk to Saporoschje -- In the punishment section of Camp 7100/2 -- The heroes' cellar -- The Sawod Komunar -- In Camp 7100/6 : the assembling of the 'Black Sheep' -- 4. UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR REFUSING TO WORK. Before the war tribunal -- In the Rayon Prison of Saporoschje -- In Charkov Transit Prison -- On the way to Siberian banishment -- In the banishment camps of the 'Angarlag' west of Lake Baikal -- Under false suspicion -- In the 205th column -- Strange encounter in the Taiga -- A friend falls by the roadside -- An unsuccessful escape attempt -- There is no exploitation of people by people in the Soviet Union -- 58 degrees cold -- As factotum in the ambulatorium -- 5. THE JOURNEY HOME. Is this really the journey home? -- The big leap! -- The last stage -- On German soil -- 'Tell the truth'.