Robert Kramann

“He was thirty-three years old František Faktor who came from Vyšné and who escaped through the wires which set off the signal alarm, the soldiers came to the Austrian territory and shot him from behind three-hundred metres from the border. I and my colleague found him, he was lying on his stomach, he had three gunshot wounds on his back, and you could see – it was later said that he heard forestry work in the forest, cutting trees and so on, so he thought he would turn up the radio so that those people could not hear him, but it was not the case… And then he died.”

“On 30 October 1984, I was on duty at the station in Gmünd II. and we were announced that a dead body was reportedly lying in the forest. A farmer found it when working in the field. At first, he thought that those were just pieces of clothes, he got off the tractor and he made sure that a corpse – a dead man was lying there.”

“It was Josef Kranner for the second time, it was on 19 September 1968, and he was one hundred or two-hundred metres near the Czechoslovak border. And he went mushroom picking as always did. And he was stopped by the soldiers this time, he was allegedly on their territory in Czechoslovakia. He was bitten to the leg by dogs and by the clearly visible tracks in the woods he was dragged further inland, and all along we could see mushrooms he was dropping."