MUDr. Adolf Lick

"I signed it for the leadership, of course, and then even the chairman of the party signed it, and the chairman of the ROH (Revolutionary Trade Union Movement), those were the three such decisive elements that were worked with. So they signed the protest here and it was sent to the leadership. It was deposited at the party organs and it kind of weighed down on the cadre material for all those who signed it. We didn't recall it in any way, it was passed by silence, I don't remember signing anything recalling it, it was generally overturned. I went through that sort of party vetting of senior staff, I went through that, I was allowed to stay in post, I wasn't removed from post. I was interviewed, there I had to repent at that interview, recant the troop entry (signing the petition), there was no other way to say it, well you could say it, but I didn't say it, so I recanted and I was able to continue to stay on as a hospital director. Maybe if I hadn't recanted I probably would have been excused and I would have had to go back to GP or I don't know what I would have done."

"In 1945, the Germans were still in the borderlands and they didn't want to harvest the crops, and we scouts or other people were deployed to the borderlands to help harvest the crops. Our scout troop was assigned to Boršov near Moravská Třebová, where we were assigned to individual farms, and we lived alone in the school. We helped to harvest the crops, and the end of it was quite attractive for us, because there was a dairy there, and the Germans were sabotaging somewhere and blowing up some of the businesses there, so we as little boys, but there were older boys with us, so we got a rifle and we guarded the dairy. So five of us went there and the oldest one had a rifle in case something happened. Otherwise, we lived in the school, where there was also a guard all the time to make sure that nothing happened to us. Fortunately, it went off without any interference and we went home safe."