Bořivoj Hytych

“As I said before, we had more of those fields, so my father was declared a kulak and that brought unpleasant things, especially in later life. I had trouble getting into any school, even though I was not stupid, but that was it. Back then, you may have heard from sources other than just me, that they always had some problems with it. It somehow managed to happen by chance, after all, they were not all communist scumbags, as they said. So, I finished my studies and went to work at a savings bank. So I was a liquidator, that's how I came into contact with the public. And that didn't sit well with some high. He had a negative influence on the upbringing of a socialist person. So it turned out very badly, after a year and a half I was fired. The principal fired me, then had to apologize. He said: 'It's not my fault, I was ordered to do it'. So I had to look for something else.”

“You may hear it, it comes up sometimes. Before, it was rumored or not talked about much. Those relations have deteriorated terribly. Before, everyone knew that he was either German or Czech, but that's where it was expressed. It even happened there that the neighbours they knew had to go out of the house and were driven to Vyškov, to the so-called concentration camp. There was a castle - and there still is - and there these people were housed and had to go to work where needed. Those people, the Czech people, took a very bad approach to it. These people were not to blame. He was German, all right, but he was not responsible for what Hitler did. They cooperated with each other throughout the war. They helped each other when someone had a horse and other one did not, so he helped him, whether he was a Czech or a German. Such a situation was not unknown; it was rather common. But then, the situation got terribly worse. There the human characters showed themselves. It was hard to remember, it's not a good memory of these things. And they are people I knew too.”