František Outrata

"There was one person who forced us to join the party with Volk, the colleague we had worked with for years. So we joined the party, that was... In 1969 they liquidated Dubček, so it was sometime in 1966 that we joined the party. And when they liquidated Dubček in 1969, we returned the cards. And at that time, to return the membership cards at that time, I guess it was really, well, not that it was a matter of life, but it was a matter of employment for sure. But because there were reasonable people at that ČSAD, it passed quite well, so we survived actually."

"That was sometime at the end of April in '45, you know, that was such excitement, standing over there. There was a gamekeeper called Kopec at our place and he had two assistants who were already partisans at that time and they dropped some weapons there. And they already had the weapons there at that time and it was in the Sokol Hall. And somebody must have reported it, because on the 1st of May, I think, the Gestapo from Moravské Budějovice arrived there. And when they discovered it, they wanted to destroy the village. They wanted to burn it down, and that had to be signed by the then governor who was in Moravské Budějovice, and he didn't sign it anymore. So this is how Martínkov was saved."