If the French only heard that the Germans are ten kilometers away from them, they would leave their lunches and would be gone in no time The French were very hysterical about them Their roads have been blocked for miles and the German fire fighters were destroying them from above
Mr. Vaclav Vondrak was born on December 29th 1912 in Dudin village in Vysocina region. He had seven siblings. His mother widowed when he was only two and a half years old. Followed by the cruel behavior of the German intruders experience he and his brother decided to enter the foreign army troops in fall of 1939. Their runaway journey led through Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Lebanon to France was very dramatic. They went to jail few times for illegal crossing of the state border. They were in permanent risk of deportation. Mr. Vondrak left Beirut with the foreign legion and went to Marseille. There he fought with the heavy machine gun. After the French surrender on June 22nd 1940 he went to Great Britain. He underwent the training by paratroopers and tank unit. Then he fought in the Dunkerque battle where he got wounded. After the end of the war he remained in the army, but he has been dismissed as a ´unreliable person´ and thrown out of the Military History Institute of Prague. After that he worked on the Slapy water dam. He died on November 11, 2009.