Film 1: German Communists in the Gulag
Film 2: Carola Neher – cause of death unknown
Film 3: Austrians in the Gulag

Thousands of German communists and anti-fascists fled to the Soviet Union, the “fatherland of the working people”, after Hitler seized power. It is part of the tragedy of German communism that the vast majority of them died or disappeared during the Stalinist “purges”. More cadres died under Stalin than under Hitler. This truth was covered up by the German communists and the documents were kept under lock and key.
Stalin has been dead for seventy years, but the German communist parties or their successor organizations have still not clarified the fate of their own “comrades” who fled to the Soviet Union.
It was only when Gorbachev invited them to the Soviet Union in 1998 to view the documents in the archives that they began – still hesitantly – with this long overdue task.
This is also the approach of the film. For the first time, the few survivors of the gulags, most of whom were banned from speaking in the GDR, were given the opportunity to talk about their experiences and to travel with the camera to the authentic places in the former Soviet Union.