Pěvuše Kohoutová

“Then there were the 77 officials who were supposed to work in blue-collar professions. And so the husband was appointed to go to the mines, but because he had glasses, they put him in the Skoda to the crafting table. He was commuting for some time, but it was too far, so he found an apartment there in Pilsen. But there was no heating, so he ran around Pilsen to warm himself up. He had been there for two years and his legs had swollen, so the doctor wrote that he couldn't do it anymore. A new director came to take him back to the post office. ”[Witnesses mentions a so-called Action 77. This was announced in 1951 in connection with an increase in economic tasks, when the industry demanded tens of thousands of new workforce. In the framework of the action 77 000 - not 77 - officials were to be transferred to the production process.]

"That was a grand event, when General Patton arrived with Marlene Dietrich, that was wonderful. But it also happened that in Přeštice in the school garden they had a table, which had to be attended by all Czechs who had to cooperate with the Germans or even the Germans. They had to bring with them all their property, the most necessary, only a few. At that table there were two women who had come from the concentration camp, and as they stood in the row, they had to go to the table one by one, lay the bundle of valuables there, the two women went, each boxing the person. There was a mother with her daughter, the daughter saw her mother being beaten, so she screamed, 'Mom!' We couldn't look at it anymore, so we went away. That was a single experience. Then the Czechs took revenge on innocent Germans, who were not responsible for anything. The people who worshiped the Germans and then beat them. Not all Germans were the same.”