Karel Malý

"The holes were covered with a plank which connected them and covered the opening between the parts. The bugs lived in the space behind the planks. During the day it was fine, but when you turned off the lights at night, you could hear some rustling sound. We already knew what to do. When the rustling began, the bugs were all over the ceiling and they began falling down. Not all of them were able to hold onto the ceiling. We all got out of beds, grabbed our shirts, shoes, or whatever was at hand and started smashing the bastards on the ceiling."

"Both German and Czech were being spoken everywhere, because people who could speak German wanted to show off that they could speak it, although they didn’t have to, because the shop assistants in the shops were Czechs. But there were some bastards who wanted to show off their fluency in German, and they would start speaking German instead of Czech. Others could not oppose them, but people told each other them, and a person like that was generally disdained. After the war they were labelled as collaborationists."