Václav Němec

“To force him to join, they would come for him, stating that they need to discuss something. But as they would pick him up, they went north towards Hlinsko and even farther to the KSB – District State Security (Krajská státní bezpečnost) in Pardubice. There he was being interrogated for quite a long time and they were pressing him hard, he never told us how it went, but probably it was like: 'Either you will join or we will move your family out.' That was what they used to do. And there he had our old grandfather at home, our aunt, us boys, well I was away...And he came back a different person. At first, he would go to the barn, as Karel told my mother, and turned on the electricity. But they knew that he wants to kill himself with the electricity, so they would turn it off. And then, as no one was watching... He stood there for days, smoking all the time, and he wrote this autobiography, those three documents: 'These people ruined my life, I can´t live like this, being a nervous wreck...' - as he had lived through a concentration camp and was afraid of things to come. So he went to the attic, put a sack with some grain under his feet and he hung himself.”

“In Kamenice, on the 8th of May, Mr Mráz volunteered to serve as a negotiator and he would approach them with the white flag as he spoke good German. And after he stopped the convoy, the commander stated that the village was 'a partisans´ nest'. Then he would make him sit on a car and state his demands. That they will be allowed free passage, that they will not be shot upon and maybe five more points, so after that he went away. But as the convoy was going uphill, reaching the church and the school, the soldiers would wave at them so they would set them free. And there was so much yelling as they were being liberated, and then they got into the cars. But then they learned that on the 5th of May, four Germans were killed, maybe they were Vlasoviets or something, so they forced those four citizens of Rohozné to climb out of from the cars, they would put them against the wall and shoot them. Three of them were shot at the wall, you can still see the holes, now framed, and the fourth one, that certain Mr Novák, had passed out, so they shot him on the ground.”