die letzten Kriegswochen hinein loyal zum NS-Regime standen, eng verbunden mit einem nicht vorstellbaren Durchhaltewillen und dem unerschütterlichen Glauben, selbst ausschließlich Opfer der katastrophalen Situation zu sein. 31 people from Saxony are taken into consideration, based on the far-reaching demands of the "total war", which the NSDAP leadership and the Saxon regional leadership placed on the population. They lived in the city and in the countryside, were of different ages and found themselves in different personal, professional and political contexts. Their reflections, convictions, feelings and actions are described and analysed against the background of the Holocaust and the social development processes. This opens up a panorama that reflects the diversity of life, or, in many cases, survival, in the late Saxon wartime society in its entirety.