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Beginnings -- Gottingen -- Berlin -- 1933 -- London -- Impressions of Kharkov -- Kharkov: 1935-1937 -- Arrests -- Last months in the USSR -- (from Charlotte Houtermans' diary) -- Descent into the prisons: 1937-39 -- From desperation to hope (continuation of Charlotte Houtermans' diary) -- Fighting for freedom -- Descent into the prisons: 1939-40 -- The bridge over the river Bug -- On the other shore -- Back in Berlin -- The plutonium report -- "They should accelerate!" -- Back in Kharkov -- Kharkov trace (what happened at the session of the academy of sciences) -- Who are Beck and Godin? -- War's end -- The age of the earth -- Friends on Houtermans

Mit der Erfindung des Werkzeugs begann der Mensch, sich über die Naturkräfte zu erheben. Was unmöglich schien, haben wir seither verwirklicht: zu fliegen wie ein Vogel, ins All zu reisen, grenzenlos zu kommunizieren [...]

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