Ing. Miloš Krýže

"Now, instead of being allowed to correct their mistake and flee to the Czech Republic, they were detained and perhaps... I don't want to say imprisoned, but taken away and temporarily interned in Magdeburg, in what was like a large and, I would say, relatively peaceful prison. They were called hostages and they didn't work. They were kept there and likely even received quite limited pocket money, because I can't imagine my father sending postcards from somewhere in the city, but it was probably happening in one form of censorship or another. Still, they were relatively free and had no work duty; it had nothing to do with total deployment."

"When it became obvious that it was going to be bad and a disaster was coming, [dad] mobilised enough to... By then, the last train had left, but he got a cartman with a wagon, a German of course, and he convinced him with a hefty sum of cash to load what could fit on the wagon. There were blankets and maybe some basic dishes and papers, and my mother and my brother left for the 'country', as they said at the time, sometime in September 1938. Back then, there was the division between the Sudetenland and the 'country'; that's how the Czechoslovak Republic was divided."