I was always worried there would be the Gestapo behind the windows.

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Ing. Ludvík Šablatura was born on 6 August 1924 in Trojanovice-Bystrý in the Beskydy. In the autumn of 1944 he joined a resistance group called Beta, which was part of a larger organisation,´Rada tří´. (He also helped with Operation Wolfram.) After he had been reported by informers in March 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo. He was harshly interrogated and then imprisoned in Ostrava, Brno and in Mirošov’s detention camp. After the war he graduated from a secondary forestry school and later he studied at the College of Agriculture in Brno, in the forestry department. He settled down in Harrachov. He was also a member of Czech national skiing team and worked for ČSTV (Czech Sports Association). Ludvík Šablatura died on February 14, 2022.