Adolf Černý

"There are, of course, memories of the US military for a number of reasons. One reason is that there were some black soldiers. It was something interesting for us children. And then we got chocolate from those soldiers, which was quite... at that time, probably the other children didn't know."

"My parents met in Prague in an interesting way. The mother worked in the military intelligence of France. She spoke German and French, and the father was a soldier in Prague at the time. Well, they got acquainted at the event, where a kind of inspection of the construction of the forts that were being built at that time was carried out, and in fact it was... not under license, but according to the French model. This test of such forts took place in Slaný and my father was there as a soldier. My mother was there with the delegation, the French military delegation, so they met there. They were still in Prague until the beginning of the war, and when the father was demobilized, they had to move. They have moved to father's original place of residence or birthplace."

“Grandmother - because they joined the Germans, she was more or less waiting to be expelled. But somehow, since her husband did not serve in the army, he was disabled, and her grandmother could speak Czech, so she was practically Czech, just married to a German. My grandfather didn't know a word of Czech. But then, in fact, after the intervention of the father, they didn't force them to leave and they stayed here.”

"The fact that my mother spoke perfect German and I that my name was Adolf, so when I was like... I was supposed to be able to run, but I haven't spoken yet. So there was a raid in that village, and they actually inspected every house in detail. It was after the assassination of Heydrich. So when they came to our barracks, my mother called Adolf and spoke German to them. So they didn't actually look at anything, my mother made them some coffee and they actually left right away."

"When I was born, my father was totally employed by Škoda. Where he actually apprenticed a painter; first he trained and then worked as a painter in the company. Then, when he went to military, he stayed in the army, because he did the non-commissioned officer school and he stayed there as an elder, as an elder one could say. And for that reason he was totally deployed to Skoda. Well, Skoda began to produce war material, there were tanks and cannons for the German army."