Alois Brejcha

"Mrs. Šlosarová did not come from Smědčice. The next day, when I asked her what had happened, the Russians and a tank entered her room. They broke the wall, it fell on the couch. She had grown boys. They fixed it, knocked it out, bricked up the hole. In about a month, she tells me that she wishes they would come again. I said, what? The insurance company had paid for it. She was making, like, fourteen hundred a month at the time. The insurance company gave her about fourteen thousand for what those guys fixed."

"He brought that type of car, Heydrich's, from here. There was an auto workshop in our yard, Mr. Český had it. He spent two years putting it together, he did a restoration. It was a beautiful car. Then came [the registration]. At the communist headquarters in Pilsen, at the skyscraper, they used to give papers for cars repaired after the war. He took all the invoices he had after the repairs and went to get a number. He came back by train because he was not allowed to take his briefcase with the invoices out of his car. They confiscated it immediately. I remember after that the bishop came to our church and brought some relics. He came in our car, which they confiscated from my dad. I was there among the old women, a little boy like that. I snapped at the bishop that he was the one who stole our car. They chased me out, said it wasn't allowed. I haven't been to church since."