Alois Grůz

“There’s a farm in Bludov near to the church, and they weapons there. When you come at the chapel in Bludov from the direction of the spa, there’s a little villa there, and they had a weapons stored there as well, which is where we took them from. The boys we were, eager for anything. The German army was already retreating, and there was a blown bridge near Loučení, at the crossroads to Zábřeh, Klášterec, and Šumperk. We went there. I remember that the Germans could have shot us - we had weapons and we were civilians. The Germans went past us in droves, and none took any notice of us. I had about three SMGs around my neck. We trekked from Bludov to Zborov. I guess they divided it up between them then, but I don’t know about that.”

“Dad wanted to see me again because he knew I was at school. So he asked the guard to let him see me. The guard allowed it but watched him to make sure he wanted make a run for it. So he said goodbye to me, and then the Gestapo dragged him off to Šumperk, where he remained for some time, and then they took him to Mírov. They told the women that they could come visit him. They always went in twos or threes with a parcel of some kind. When they arrived, they pulled a joke on them and said that the commander had banned visits. One time, when he was still in the court prison in Šumperk, I came to visit him. We could’t tell each other anything, not even a whisper, and they cut it off after a set amount of time.”