Přemysl Burian

"After the assassination there were a lot of arrests and it must have been terrible in Petschek Palace. So my grandfather and Mr. Václav Smrž decided, or at least started considering quite actively, trying to find a few determined people, getting some grenades left from the assassination, and attacking Petschek's Palace. I guess this is not widely known but it's true. When they discussed it with Gabčík afterwards, he rejected it resolutely because it would be just another hard blow and a lot of people might pay for it, and anyway they would need the grenades for other things later."

"My grandpa had just arrived and Václav Smrž put [the grenade] in my grandpa's pocket to bury it somewhere, hide it in the bowling alley, just put it somewhere. What happened was that my grandfather had the grenade in his coat pocket as went to the Sokol gym, which was quite close, just two hundred and fifty or three hundred metres away. There was a cordon of SS men in Prosek Square doing body searches. My grandfather was incredibly lucky, and I think we all were, since they just checked his ID but didn't do a body search. If they had found an assault grenade on him, I guess it'd be really bad."

"When we ran around Prosek playing with the boys, we once met a man walking proudly wearing a PS VB armband (the Auxiliary Guard of the police). We looked at him with such admiration because of the armband and everything. He said, 'Do you want to be PS VB too?' Being the silly boys we were, we went like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' Prosek was still more of a village then. 'Okay, so if you see somebody cutting grass that's not theirs, or taking something away, come and tell me.' I came home and proudly told my dad that I was going to be PS VB and what we were supposed to do. Dad gave me this look; I thought he was going to punch me. Then he restrained himself and said it's not nice to denounce someone like that, supporting a cause that's not right."