To Each Their Own

«To Each Their Own» is the concluding part of the artistic-documentary trilogy by Elena Syanova, dedicated to the history of the fascist Third Reich and the fates of its leaders. It would seem that there were no issues with the documentary basis of this novel - a huge array of materials from the Nuremberg Trials is available to researchers. The most interesting part of these materials consists of the transcripts of interrogations and the notes of American psychologist Gilbert, who worked with the defendants. «But, - writes the author, - these notes have little in common with the original, which did not undergo censorship and translation.» Elena Syanova works with originals. Therefore, the atmosphere of her novel is strikingly different from «Seventeen Moments of Spring.» And this is why the version of the disappearance of the «party gold» described by her appears quite credible, which Hitler saw as the guarantee of the Reich's revival. One of the main characters of the novel, Robert Ley, wrote a note that the American attaché only delivered to his widow in 1963: «If we lost, then God has changed His mind and taken away our chance. Now He gives it to our enemies.»