Ervín Šolc

„During the debates that took place in the meantime, he stayed with us, too, and Dad always told him, 'Doctor, you have to leave, the Reich will be the end of the Jews. This will happen, either there will be a war or Hitler will enter in here and there will mean a catastrophe.' And he replied: ´Oh no, Mr. Šolc, we got a promise from Henlein, that the same measures that were applied to the Germans in Reich will not take place here ever. And for that, we also gave some money as a Jewish community.“

"The problem of mixed marriages actually occurred mainly after the war, because during the first republic there were thousands of those mixed marriages, especially in the Sudetenland. And my father was not such a conscious Czech again, because he was a communist and his homeland was the Soviet Union and Stalin was his god. In addition, he came from a family of six children, and when they then got married, in the end three were Czechs and three Germans. So the problem of mixed marriage in the family as such has never played a role at all, but political views have played a role."

“114th so called hunter´s division was also placed in Yugoslavia and Tito, when we got captured, he wanted the division, so that Americans placed them for construction labours. But thanks got Americans did not oblige. We would not get out (straight away? – incomprehensible, editor´s note) from there. There (in Italy – editor´s note) I was in two years. We were building an airport for the purposes of the third world war.“

“At twelve o´clock the stream was running down on the floor towards the door and someone had to clean up. That was always us, the Germans. In Lauferovka, that was the prison, we were placed together with the criminals. They were all criminal cases for investigation.“

“I still (was – editor ´s note) with another friend from here. Sadly he also died. As we were standing and on the opposite side there was an execution commando. Just to give an order and it was done. And a certain American lieutenant, I guess he was a sergeant, a real big lad, he stopped walking past us. We were also slowing the traffic as we were standing transversely. He said: ‚What is happening here?‘ One of our boys could speak English well, so he explained what was going on. He had his machine-gun in the back, so he turned it around and took it in his hands and pointed at Italians, saying: ‚Go on, go on.‘ That was already past war, when we threw our guns away, and we were lucky not to get shot dead there.“