Štefan Habovský

“When the situation subsided, the municipal authority ordered to search the fields and burry dead soldiers, if found. Not far from Trstená I found a German. He was naked, undressed, not wearing anything. He had maybe more than 50 pictures strewn around him. There was a trench and we buried him inside. We went on, but there were also older men with us youngsters, maybe six of us walked together.” “So it was the municipal authority that had sent you?” “Yes, the town hall. So we went further app. one and a half kilometer and we found another killed German in the bush. He was also naked, wearing only the wedding ring. They told us to go on and look further. They simply drove us off. I don’t know, if they broke his finger and took the ring or not, but we had to leave. When we found another dead body, we buried him and so on. As we proceeded towards Liesek direction, we found a Russian. He was normally dressed, including grenades or automatic. We took the grenades and played with them as kids.”

“We used to go there – to say the truth – probably during two or three weeks. Every night around seven or eight we went to that house, where we met. Each half an hour or every twenty minutes two people went for a walk towards the priest’s house and back. When they returned, another two took round and this way it went on. So during the night, one may had gone for a watch walk twice. But not even once we saw policemen or ŠtB members, or anybody. The priest probably didn’t know we were watching over him, however, someone knew it and sold us out.”