Olga Musilová

“Then there was 1938. And since we were located right on the state border, all the other villages or railway stations behind us were already part of Germany… There was already Libau, in Germany. I was a ten-year-old girl at that time, but I remember that daddy… It was in May, in May 1938 and dad came home at night and he said that the situation was simply serious and that the Sudeten people, the Ordners, were up to something there and we thus left on the first train in the morning. We had a place to go to, we went here to my grandma’s.”

“When we lived in Königshan, his duty included intelligence work, and so he was coming there from Germany, he was a homeopathic doctor. We didn’t know, the word homeopathy was not used at that time, it only started in the 1990s, but I simply remember that people said that he was a homeopath. And he was coming to our flat under that pretext that he was treating my mom. He was actually bringing him messages from Germany. After the war dad then had to go to court to Breclau, and we were scared a lot, but it eventually turned out well, they recognized that he was ordered to do this as part of his duty.”