About the book: 2011 / The bloody “trench truth” of the Wehrmacht. The underworld of the Eastern Front through the eyes of German penal prisoners and death row encirclement. They go through all the circles of front-line hell together with Penal Battalion 999, which the Nazis themselves dubbed the “ascension team”, because, unlike the penal units of the Red Army, here it is impossible to “atone with blood” and there is only one way out of the damned Strafbatallion 999 - to a mass grave.