Josef Bartík

"Then, when we went, it was after the war, they were gathering Germans in the square who were to be expulsed. I remember seeing them [Revolutionary Guards] lined up around there, and one was walking around with a rifle and beating them to move on. That's what I learned, that he was one of the biggest bastards, so to speak, that [was] here after the war. He had put on his RG tape if he was doing some kind of a chief for them.... But I know that he used to go around those Germans who had a bundle ready for expulsion, so they were gathered there. He was beating up these old ladies and old men..."

"A Russian soldier was walking up the street, drunk as a dog, machine-gunned, and firing into the air and shouting. The mother of one of my classmates lived in the house opposite and was in the window. They [the Red Army soldiers] were horny. He saw a woman, so he started to break into the house. Only somebody came running in the back - there was the house of the builder Knor, who was building in Jihlava and had vacated one floor for the military police - so somebody ran in, two soldiers came out of the barrack, we saw, and an officer. Two soldiers with machine guns. They had different caps, with red armbands and stuff. They disarmed that soldier and dragged him back there, as we said, there are barracks there today. When they were dredging there somewhere, they had to dredge up his corpse or remains. We heard shooting and then they said they shot him somewhere and buried him and that was it. Their military police, they were quick to judge. Without a trial, they put him against the wall and shot him."