Eduard Císař

“Then I felt the urge to... And there was this friend who went with me. And there was this small grove. A big one – I said a small grove but it was quite big in fact – so we headed towards it... and we answered this call of nature there. And at that moment, planes started passing over us, Soviet planes. So we just kept looking at them. Just watching them pass. I didn't know how long we stayed there, we were trying to get some rest. We stayed there pretending so this SA-man wouldn't see us doing nothing. But we didn't know what was going to happen. As the planes showed up, all of a sudden we heard this noise: there was a shout and click. You can't imagine such a thing – as there was this anti-air battery hidden in that grove. There wasn't just a single gun, there were maybe ten of them. And as they got this order, they all started firing. That was just horrible. We sprung up, put our trousers on and started to run. But meanwhile, as we were – we spent quite some time there – Russian started firing over the hill, and the shells started hitting more the vicinity of the airport. We were telling ourselves: 'Oh they are such morons, we finished making it just yesterday and they are already blowing it up.” We were joking, you know. But then, shells began to fall in front of our trenches and after that even inside the trenches. So it wasn't so much fun. So every time there was this whizz – and be sure there was – we would lie down in the trenches.”