Roman Havránek

"I remember I probably followed the events. Maybe they were broadcasting Hitler's speeches. And I always had these glosses on that, which my father always liked, so he would always take me with him when he went to the office, and to tell those fellow employees how I glossed those speeches of Hitler, how he gesticulated during those speeches. That was the first time we had a radio. My father got a radio, so that's why we heard it, these speeches. It was all on the radio, the internet didn't exist yet. So it was a little bit different."

"Immediately after the liberation they announced on the radio who wants to join the scout troop, the assembly will be there and there. It was called Na Střelnici, that was the contact point. So I was the first one there, not the first one, from the whole area or from that Příbram. Boys who were interested came there, and in those days they worked not in a troop way, but in a centre way. The centre leader, who was already a scout in the First Republic, that is before the war, then he organized the scouts. And we used to go on trips as a centre, and then I, as the youngest, was placed among the "wolf cubs"."