Zdeněk Brož

"There were two auditors and they came from Velim, just outside Prague. They said to my uncle, 'Mr. Kaiser, we will always call you, but we mustn't say when we are coming. We just say that we want two rooms for two days. So after they called, my dad and I would go around to the mills in the area and report that the inspection was coming. They gave us three to five kilos of flour for it, they were glad we told them. We never had as much flour as we did during the war. Dad used to exchange it for smoking. The inspectors came on average once every six Sundays, and when we went round six mills we had twenty kilos of flour."

"My father was also imprisoned in 1941. He was cleaning the toilets in his uncle's pub and a man came in and said, 'After the war you'll be hanging from these trees here.' So he slapped him, and the next morning they came for him. Luckily, it was only the Gestapo in Kladno, and he actually got out after two months. He was treated well because he even came back with a watch. He fixed their heating and kept the place warm - no one heated like he did. That time he made it back, but from 1943 onward, things got worse. Otherwise, the Germans didn’t pay much attention to us, but when it came to informing on people, they were real bastards."