František Krajíček

„I wanted to claim a free Saturday in the army too as it was a part of my belief. Of course I got into troubles and spent two months in a trial detention in Pilsen - Bory. The custody was not so bad, I was working and waited for the trial sentence. Two months later a new commander called me in and said: ‚You know what. I will not send you back and you do one thing for me. You get lost every Saturday. I don´t care where you are but you won´t be here.‘ And so it happened.“

„Then I was in Pardubice. One platoon was not far from us. In the platoon there were all fifty sixty years old people, the ones in command were corporals. In one platoon there was a young corporal, a boy of twenty years, who was treating the old people very roughly. Even the soldiers learnt that there is his father in the platoon he leads. And it was a horror the way he commanded it and his father too. The boys knew what to do. They waited for him, threw a blanket over him, beat him and it was all over.“