On the title page of this book are the dates ?1933-1941?. However, the reader may have noticed that the last chapter dealt with years of later. But this is not a chronological shift, but rather a chronological bridge leading to the years of the Great Patriotic War. They are so significant for Europe and all mankind that they cannot be divorced from the prehistory of the Second World War. Operations "Grun" (the capture of Czechoslovakia), "Weiss" (the attack on Poland), "Gelb" (the attack on France), "Zelyov" (landing in England) were only steps of the Nazi conspiracy against the world, which led to the central plan - the attack on the Soviet Union. At all stages of armed, political and economic expansion, Hitler, his generals and the uncrowned kings of steel, coal and chemistry who stood behind them always kept a distant sight, in the slit of which they saw the Land of Soviets. ? All that I am doing is directed against Russia? - these words of Hitler can be considered the true creed of German imperialism. The history of imperialism consists of dozens, hundreds of big and small mysteries, from the secrets of the most various categories of secrecy. About these solved mysteries of recent history - and the author selected only a few of them? will be discussed in the pages of the book. The author relies in his work on documents, only documents, and once again documents. I defend the documentary prose produced by history itself, full of such unexpected materials that the most skillful fiction will not invent. These are heavy chains imposed on oneself, for the necessary document does not always lie on the table. It took many years to find some of them, and sometimes I will allow myself in the pages of this book to tell the very history of the search. All statements and even dialogues are based on protocol records , documentary evidence or , Finally, According to eyewitness accounts , with whom the author has spoken in recent years in Moscow , Kiev , Warsaw , Prague , Berlin , Bonn , Geneva , Munich , Dsseldorf , Zurich , London , Brussels , Amsterdam??Lev Bezymensky