'Salvation from Captivity: Memories of the Period 1945/47') is a memoir book by the German jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt.
Schmitt began to write the book while he was imprisoned by the Allied occupiers in the aftermath of World War II.
He was held in an American mass internment camp in 1945–46 and as a witness and "possible defendant" in the prison of the Nuremberg trials in 1947.
Schmitt was never formally charged for anything, but was held in isolation and wrote the book as a way to cope with the situation.
Schmitt argued for his own innocence and that he had no obligation to actively oppose the German government.