Borisa Kučerová

On the [horse drawn carriage] shafts, there were five ropes tied and each one of them [the Germans] had the rope like this and was holding it. On that wagon the former commissioner was sitting, the mayor of the town [Fritz Mikiska], and he was a German. But he was the mayor even during the First Republic. He was a very nice man, he owned a factory, they made shovels and spades and things like that. Of course, during the war, maybe some munitions were made there, I don't know. This man, who had saved some people in Litovel, the mob put him on a postal wagon, he was kneeling there and holding on to the railing. Above him were two Czechs from Litovel, but belonging to the mob that was there. There weren't many of them, but they were there. And they were dressed in some uniforms, probably of Czechoslovak policemen, and they had a whip and with it they were beating the people who were pulling the wagon. And they always said, 'Halt and stop!' So they stopped and the mayor was forced to say - I remember it literally: 'I am a traitor to the Czech nation and Hitler is a swine.' And he had to repeat in German. And they always drove some fifteen or twenty meters. The ones who were pulling the wagon were so exhausted, their faces were completely red. You could see they were pulling with the last of their strength. So that´s what I saw with my own eyes."