Jaroslav Zeman

"This is Rudolf Burkert, his history is such that he won the title of world champion in 1927 in the combined race in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Then in 1928 he won the historically first medal for Czechoslovakia in the Winter Olympic Games in St. Moritz, he was third. It's even written there on that panel, I was there to look out of curiosity, it says by Rudolf Burkert. Then in 1934 he won a silver medal in ski jumping at the World Championships in Innsbruck. Then he was showing off somewhere, he also jumped with the bride in his arms, and during other activities, he was probably cool, right, he broke his leg. He broke the leg so badly that it meant the end of his career. But paradoxically, it probably saved his life because he could not join the German army. "

"From the story of Mrs. Pechová, who was born in 1926 and was a Czech living in Tanvald, which was more of a uniqueness. There were few Czechs there. During the war, Mrs. Pechová was serving in the family of an industrialist in Dresden. His son was an aide to Göring, and it was strange to me that Schowanek did everything for the Luftwaffe. Then I understood that there were no public tenders. It was, as always, about acquaintances. So through Göring’s aide, who was his friend, Schowanek did everything for the Luftwaffe. In the end, seventy percent of war production was done here, and thirty percent were toys. Who does business or manufactures in something, when you imagine wooden toys and when you turn them into seventy percent of war production, that is, metal, metalworking. It was an amazing performance that he could turn around like that. And from those numbers - they made twenty-five thousand gun carriages here. They were even tested in a hangar by the Kamenice River. There was a shooting range and the machine guns were being tested there. Additional tanks for Luftwaffe aircraft were also made here when they were attacking London. "