Zdeněk Nevšímal

"Dad also told me that before the former residents were displaced in 1946... it didn't happen all at once, someone had to stay there to tend the cattle because otherwise they would die. I even remember now that it dragged on with my father all his life, that he fought for one family to stay there. They were knowledgeable about land, the quality of the land, and the fertility of fields. He wanted them to stay there so they wouldn't be displaced. They would have liked to stay there, but they got it by some order from the Revolutionary Guards, who guarded them with a gun on their belt. It was already stamped, so they had to leave. My father fought for them, and that got stuck with him, the communist leaders on the state estates reminded him that he stood up for the Germans. He once told me that before the wires were built on the borders, people were still coming back. They hid things and felt that it might not turn out well, so they went for them at night. They were returning across the border, allowing themselves to be displaced only a little beyond the borders with Germany and Austria. There was also one case, I don't remember exactly, I don't know which house it was, but when the former residents felt that they probably wouldn't come back, they set the house on fire. They returned on foot across the border, through Haidmühle, Stožec, past Žleby. They went for other things that no one had stolen before. But quite often it happened that the houses had already been looted."

,,[State Security]... they invited me in the fall, in a few months. And they invited me to Lann's class. They invited me to see if I knew Mrs. Klauberová from Igla. She worked as a laboratory assistant there. They asked if I knew her, if we talked together. At this time [in České Budějovice] a certain bishop from Philadelphia was visiting, because it was the anniversary of the death of Jan Nepomuk Neumann. There was a pilgrimage in Prachatice and I also took part in it. You could see that they had filmed me. There was someone standing on the wall and not taking pictures in the direction of the altar or the procession. He took pictures against people, so he collected all the faces. During the interrogation, they wanted to know what I heard there, who I talked to. I was there only with my relatives, I didn't hear anything against the Communist party of Czechoslovakia, nothing was said anywhere. Everything revolved around the deceased Bishop Neumann, and at the end [State Security investigator] told me: 'You want to send your children to religion education, so sign a paper for us here.' Of course, it was such a nice paper. I even remember there were linden leaves and a symbol. I thought they wanted to sign this, I didn't read it because I was already so nervous, I put my signature in there and that was it and that was the end of it for me."