Heaps of dead bodies.”
Karel Šimůnek was born on the 24th of December 1922 in Újezd, near Kasejovice. We learned the locksmith craft and was drafted into the forced labour corps in Linz. Upon returning to Czechoslovakia, he encountered Vlasov’s army. After the war he worked for ČZ (Česká zbrojovka) in Strakonice and also for a short while worked on the Lipno dam.