Jiří Rožek

"When the war ended in the forty-fifth year, the Germans - if they were in Vysoké Mýto - wanted to get through Skuteč to the Western soldiers, to the Americans. And my dad was over 30 years old at that time and the war was over. And some conscious brass hat called those who had finished the war, and said that from Luže to Skuteč - there's even a monument made there, that the Germans would march through there. And that they had to stop them. So these young boys were there. The Germans came, shot them. Dad had seven bullets. He was lying on Košumberk, I have photos. I have photos from the funeral of those young boys. I don't know how many were there. And my grandfather, it was across the field from Bělá, so he saw that something was going on there. So he took the horses and those who were still alive, he took to Košumberk to the hospital, to the sanatorium."

"The problem was then in the fifties when they banned it from being sold anywhere. It just wasn't allowed to go to the market like now, now it's allowed. Before, you just drove into the square and either a policeman came or didn't come to tell you, 'Pick up and leave,' or he wrote it down. But then I was riding with my dad and I wasn't of legal age, so they couldn't get on me. I didn't have an ID."