Ing. Jan Kadlec

"They invited men from sixteen to forty-five years old to Chomutov to a football field and training ground, originally German. It was in Chomutov, so they brought them there under threat of death if they didn't come. There is a regulation for that, it's in writing, I have it. And they had to raise their arm so that there would be that sign, that number as SS. They were shot immediately. And the others, for example, they carved a swastika on their backs with a knife, that's what really happened, or they set fire to their genitals, or their bags. The Germans suffered a lot. The anger of the Czechs was great, of course."

"What happened there was that my grandfather built one floor on top of the house. That was his work. And on the ninth or tenth of May, the so-called looting guard came and said they had to move out by morning. My grandfather couldn't take it, and he hanged himself that night. So grandma stayed behind. Grandma had a brother in Chomutov. He was a Social Democrat. So he could leave in forty-sixth year without any problems with all his possessions. And then my grandmother left with him. She had to. Even though my father went to all sorts of institutions so she could stay with us. She was an awfully nice woman. And she had to go. She died in her fifty-fourth year. That was my twentieth birthday, she sent me a card, then she died. But even my mother, or her daughter, couldn't go to the funeral because she was in West Germany. So she couldn't bury her, so to speak."