Josef Pospíšil

„We lived at the end of Zikova street on the fourth flooor, so we had a great view at the whole square dominated by the archbishop’s seminary. In front of our windows, where there is a Construction faculty ČVUT, there was a great fenced area with fight technic of SS guns, which were actually in the High school of chemistry and technology. The last events were so dramatic, that they stuck in my memory forever. Just in short, the father was following it all, called us to the window to follow up with him. That was in the morning hours, a great transport of armoured vehicles came out of the object and loading trucks with soldiers. I didn’t know if they were from Wehrmacht or SS, and probably will never be able to identify that. The transporter was huge, it may have taken tens of minutes to pass thought the street to the ‚round square‘, and after several hours they returned back loaded with dead people. The vehicles were actually bloodstained, which was a terrible image for me and will never forget it until the end of my life. So those are the memories I kept of all the related events, as in several hours after the event do they came to our flat; they were probably Russians, who were sniping or controlling the object from the fourth floor, the transporter stock, but also ale the High school of chemistry and technology. And I also remember that, as I kept a box with cartridges for a number of years, which they left behind. An interesting thing was, that not a single window got broken, as all of them were opened and they controlled the situation from there. And the cabinet, as I wrote about it, there is a bullet scratch on it, which was left in the flat and we found it later. So this is a story I find very interesting and kept it in my memory. Of course there were many such interesting things such as the administrator of the building was thrown down the roof, who put up a Czech flag thinking the end of war is coming, so he was killed. And I don’t really know how it happened, then they shot or threw down a certain German lieutenant, who actually laid there for several days and we as children just looked at him lying there dead with a cigarette in his mouth.“