Mgr. Josef Neuwirth

"One tank drove up and didn't know that there was a small-arms firing range dug for training purposes. It was a long trench, about six metres wide and ten metres long. Well, if you imagine a hill, how that tank drives up the hill... Suddenly a trench appears in front of him and before he could stop, that six-meter-wide trench worked as an anti-tank trench. The tank rolled over and got stuck with its barrel in the ground."

"A young lieutenant jumped out of the tank, pistol in hand, and a machine gunner came out of the tank and stayed on the tank. He ran up to me, saw that I had some kind of gold star on my epaulet, so he thought I was in charge. He asked me what we were doing there, why we were there. I still could speak Russian because I was a few years out of secondary school. He ordered me to herd all the soldiers I had there to a corner by the fence. I ordered all the soldiers who were there to go to the fence. The Russian lieutenant asked me if all the soldiers were there. I say, 'They are.' He says, 'Let's find out. We'll go around the dugout shelters, and if I find anyone there, I'll shoot them.'"