Walter Kempowski's report on his years in Bautzen. In his so-called German Chronicle, Walter Kempowski tells the story of his family from the German Empire to the 1960s of the Federal Republic. In "A Chapter of Its Own," the young Walter is arrested in March 1948, accused of espionage, and sentenced to a long prison term in Bautzen prison. His mother Margarete and his brother Robert also end up in prison. It will be years before they are free again, until reunification.