Václav Bumbálek

"In '45, when I was already thirteen, we, the older boys, could hear cars rumbling from somewhere in Prachatice or Volary. That was the American army. So we went there to look too, it was about five kilometers away, Volyně. There was a place where they stored cars, where they stayed. That was already in the afternoon. Then we went home with a bunch, everybody was talking, they were older. Then I broke away from them and went on my own."

"Well, first the Germans came there, they started to occupy it, so they drove around Dalešice, then they made a shooting range in the forest. They drove through the fields there and people had a problem that the tanks would damage a field, drive over it. And then my mother and I were in Neveklov and there were already tanks on display in the square, a number of tanks lined up and it had already started. And then - as they were shooting there, then they found out... Because our village, there is such a hill there, and from Jablonné, from the direction of the river, from the Vltava, there is such a nice view, and they started to move it there. They started buying it up first, the houses, the Germans, and somebody was translating it with them. And they started to revise the place and then when they, like, decided that it was a training ground, they announced that people should find other housing and evicted everybody out."