I escaped from Germany three times
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Karel Suchý was born on 23 June, 1931 in Freiberg in Germany. He spent his childhood in children homes in Dresden. His mother didn‘t care for him as a bastard child. He moved to Prague at the age of nine with his mother going to her new husband. There he went to a Czech elementary school, after his stepfather died, he was forced together with his mother to give up Czech citizenship and Karel attended the Hitlerjugend. At the end of war fourteen year old Karel was captured by the gestapo. After liberation of Czechoslovakia he was displaced three times to Germany, from where he always came back. Finally he got a repatriation permit and has stayed in Bohemia ever since.