Jan Hes

"When [the execution of Herta Kašparová] was in Třešt', some people went there to see it. I went there with my dad on a motorcycle. When we arrived at the castle, there was a high wall around the castle. They let my dad in and not me. I went around the wall and came back along the wall and hid and watched as they hung Kašparová. I was at the execution too, not by accident, on purpose. Dad went there to see."

"They got into the fire truck, drove to Krahulčí and stopped at the school. There they argued about whether there were still any Germans [in the village]. In the meantime, a German car from Telč arrived with a soldier in it. They stopped him and took his weapons. Since they didn't know what was in the village, they let him go. But he [the driver of the car] drove down to the monument, opened the door - there the Germans were already hurrying to leave. They had horses, they had no cars. When he came to a curve, he opened the door and shouted, 'Rote auto partisan.' And he drove on. By then I was standing at the site of today's monument. Ten minutes later, a red car came. They [the Germans] put a machine gun on the pile of sand that the road workers had there. And when the [fire] truck arrived, they liquidated it. They shot the crew, two guys jumped out and they shot them. Two of them ran out of there and one of them went under the canal and they shot him in that pipe. I was watching it all."