Vít Frank Mutl

"I went to Yugoslavia and we crossed the border. We didn't have any papers, we crossed the border and we walked through the forest and mountains overnight. And what I remember about it is that there were soldiers down below us and we were already close to the border and we just, we did something and they suddenly started screaming there. And we ran and the dogs barked. Well, we got to Italy between the border where Austria, Italy and Slovenia are. There you could escape. We crossed the border, they Italians caught us. And they were Italians, as they are... they wore such hats with feathers and they were so happy to catch someone at the border and they kept offering us cognac. Because we didn't have anything to drink, we wanted water, I remember that. They threw us in a prison in Trieste and we were there for about a month, in prison, before they found out that we weren't criminals or anything like that. And what I remember is that they made us eat spaghetti every day. Every day we got spaghetti and no meat at all; it was just the tomato sauce with spaghetti."