Hana Schmidtová

"And the next day me and my dad went out to look, because we had heard bangs, we all knew, what happened. And so we went to there to look. We trudged in the glass there. It was just everywhere, where there were glass doors, windows, screens, and I don't know, what else, they shot into everything. Everything that sparkled, they shot into. Those people, all those engineers and and even the guard, they drove them out before Krašov, before the radio tower. They stood them up there by the canal, took away their IDs, their wallets. They took their ID cards, and stood them there. And when they drove away, then they left them there and drove away. And all of that happened in a very short while. It was pretty horrible, because if they had cut one wire, then the radio tower would no longer broadcast, they said. But they did not know that, and so they only managed to damage one of the pillars, on which it stood. But other than that everything, that they could, they shot. There were holes everywhere. It was terrible."

"We were there until sixty-eight at that butcher's shop, before the occupation came. And then in September my father went to Germany and returned only in the year seventy. Basically he spent two years in Germany, in Frankfurt, but because he had... Basically he was constantly prolonging his stay, so that he could also legally return home. And then in that February of 1970 we both had our passports arranged - my mother and I. And my sister was long married, she already lived in Plzeň. And when we had our passports sorted out, that we were about to travel out to him, then they put not valid on our passports, and so we could not travel. And so my father returned in that February of 1970." - "And so you from the start planned, that..." - "From the start we planned to resettle there. He was not doing badly for himself. They had a Czech pub, in that Frankfurt, he lived well, bought a car, drove to visit us... We de facto lived well."