Vlastimil Dostál

"It wasn't such a bad service, except that... And I even got paid 1,500 crowns per month for it, except for the salary, so it wasn't that bad. Except that a political training was done and it got to me. Because as a platoon leader, I had to do the training myself. But they did it in such a way that the commanders of all the platoons went to the training a week in advance to the Political commissar of the unit. And he handed us notebooks - I remember it was a talk about agriculture from Slánský. Well, I don't understand agriculture, none of us did. And now he was lecturing there, we were supposed to take notes and then lecture it to our platoon. The training was twice a week for two hours. Two hours to talk about what I don't understand, I didn't like, I couldn't do it. And moreover, I was very depressed by the fact that I am a carpenter, I have no education, I only have a basic education and I have to train high school and university students myself, because there were no ordinary people serving at PTP (The Auxiliary Technical Battalions)."

"At this intersection there were the ones who armed themselves, the our ones. And now it happened that a company of German soldiers really went from Pohora on that forest road. However, Širůček was not there, there was another commander of the group, and when the soldiers came closer, he stopped them and told them the same thing: 'It is the end of the war, hand over your weapons!' But the commander of the company said: 'I will not give anything to the civilians, we will not capitulate to the civilians. The army has to come! ‘So, he was not successful, but one of our guys shot from the forest. Some even say it was a shotgun. I do not know. And he shot at the company. A soldier from the end of the company separated from them, jumped on the meadow, lay down on it and shot in the direction from which the shot came. As he shot, more shots came from the forest again from the armed men, our soldiers - civilians, who started shooting at the Germans. He saw that they were shooting at him and a stream flowed there, so he lay down in the stream and continued shooting. The commander ordered the march and the company left and they left him there. Now there was a shooting, and someone from the forest threw a grenade at him. They said the grenade exploded about half a meter away from him. But it exploded on the shore and he lay in a stream. And because the grenade explodes on the surface, the fragments fan out - because it was fan-shaped, nothing happened to him."