Oldřich Richter

"That life in that camp, as I mentioned, they had bad intentions with us. We learned this more or less inadvertently, because our instructors and commanders, the reliable non-commissioned officers, they liked people to pay for them in the pub. And when they were out, they always joined someone and got paid. And because it was free, they always indulged, and when they did, they talked. And one [said]: 'Just don't think that when the Americans come' - there was a war in Korea, the situation was really very tense - 'that they will free you from here. No way. We'll go away and a bullet is ready for each and every one of you."

"It was a camp like concentration camps. A wire fence, two rows of barbed wire at the top, a gate with a guardhouse, and a man with a bayonet, a reliable one, walking around with a rifle. So it was made easier for them by us being under thrir control. What they didn't do was that they never knew who was on the shift and who wasn't on the shift. Because sometimes it happened that the shift was delayed, they did not have time to work out or did not have a finished job to do, so they stayed on the shift. And they didn't know who he was. "