We had to walk down the block with the school to watch the dead
Miloš Št’astný was born on 4 January 1932 in Prague. He grew up with his grandparents in Úžice, because his parents operated coal warehouses in Kozomin. He moved in with his parents during the first grade. He lived not far from Panenské Břežany, where the Reich Protectors lived during the war. At the end of the war he watched the bombing of nearby Kralupy nad Vltavou. After the air raid, he and his school had to go to the local church where the Germans dumped the dead bodies to show the residents what the Americans had done. After the war he trained as a locksmith and car mechanic and joined ČSAD. During the war he changed several positions, and eventually was transferred to Pilsen, where he was assigned as a personal driver for a Soviet general. After his return, he worked in a veneer factory until his retirement.