Part I. Paradise Lost, 1933-1942 -- Paradise -- Am I Still the Way We Used to Be? -- An Important Man Arrives -- A City I Would Fall in Love With -- The Night of Broken Glass -- The Announcement Came -- That's Just How It Is Now -- Part II. Bombs on Berlin, 1942-1945 -- In the Bunkers -- I'll Be Home in No Time -- You'll Study Medicine -- The Professor with the Gray Boots -- You'll Not Recognize It -- The Twentieth of July -- Horse Carts and Children -- Who Will Save Us? -- The Final Days -- It's Over -- Part III. Journey to a New Life, 1945-1949 -- A Sharp Turn -- Stay Small -- Snow -- The Seasons Changed -- You Still Have Hope -- The Wide-Open Nothingness -- Mutti Was Stoic -- How I Came to Kiel -- The Man Who Had Been to Canada -- Coda: Sweden, 1952 -- The Lake -- Letters to My Beloved Franzel -- Epilogue.