The Germans come -- Looting takes know-how -- We enter the "new life" -- Concerning heaven on earth -- The author speaking -- Kreshchatik Avenue -- The order -- Babi Yar -- A chapter of recollections -- The author speaking -- A chapter of documents -- On German time -- The books are burned -- Hunger -- I become a businessman -- Bolik comes back again -- Kharkov is captured -- Darnitsa -- Beautiful spacious beloved land -- Night -- Man eats to live and lives to eat -- Enemies -- The wounded on the stairway -- Business becomes dangerous -- Death -- Hitler's birthday -- Off to Germany -- The author speaking -- No blessed land -- The learned are enemies -- the potatoes blossom -- The dynamo team: legend and fact.

The author speaking -- Babi Yar: the system -- Gradfather the antifascist -- To kill a fish -- A chapter of documents -- In the midst of traps -- How horses are turned into sausage -- I've been very lucky -- Flight from silence -- The earth on fire -- The author speaking -- Babi Yar: finale -- No such city will remain -- The war of the worlds -- I read Pushkin -- How may times should I have been shot? -- Five days of agony -- A chapter from the future -- La commedia e finita -- A final contemporary chapter.