Walter Plischke

* 1944

Národnostné menšiny, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu
30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Odsun Nemcov z ČSR
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    We used to visit my grandmother and grandfather in the camp for the Germans

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    "I remember my mother and I used to go there from Horská, where we lived. The camp for those being deported was down there where used to be Tesla - right here in Stráž na Kříži, just over the road, the whole complex, that used to be Tesla. In the back corner, which is the arch, there were one or two camps down there where we used to go to see where they were leaving from. I still remember them waving to us. That was not enough for me, but by going there, I saw them all the time."

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    My aunt was expelled and we secretly carried her cancer medicine across the border

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    "They only got to Neugersdorf, my uncle and aunt... My aunt had cancer, so they suggested a medicine. You couldn't get it there, and here in Ruprechtice there used to be a doctor named Dr. Schwarzwald, he was a Jew, and he used to find and mix different medicines and prepare something for her. So they arranged it and then we took it there. But it still turned out badly, like it did most of the times before, there was nothing for it." - "And where was Neugersdorf?" - "In the Šluknov region, but on the German side. If you went through Jiříkov, a little lower down from the crossing was Filipov and there was a cathedral, a big church. I don't know why, but a lot of people used to gather there. I don't know if they were all Germans, because in those days a lot of German was spoken, and especially in that part of the region. So they arranged that if they could... Because my aunt [found out] in the factory, where there was a gate, where you could walk through. The rest of it was boarded up houses and fences, but this gate could be opened. So she worked out that we could squeeze through there, and she found out how the finance guards walked the along the border - there was no fence then, it was sometime in 1948-49 or maybe 1950, because that was twice we went through there."

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    Frýdlant v Čechách, 18.03.2024

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The communists made sure that nothing became of us Germans

Walter Plischke at the end of 4th grade
Walter Plischke at the end of 4th grade
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He was born on 16 June 1944 in Liberec into a German family. His father Franz Josef Plischke came from Kristiánov near Frýdlant, his mother Hedwig, née Tandler, from Fojtka near Liberec. The family lived in the Ruprechtice district of Liberec and the parents worked in textile factories. The father was one of the necessary German specialists as a textile machines supervisor, so the family was not expulsed. However, all relatives - grandparents and siblings of the parents - were included in the expulsion. In 1948 and 1949, he and his parents crossed the border illegally twice in the Šluknov foothills when they were carrying cancer medicine to his mother‘s sister. In 1950, he entered the primary school in Rudolfov in Liberec. In 1954 the family moved to Bílý Potok, where his father was transferred to work in a textile factory. From the sixth grade he went to school in Hejnice, after which, as a German, he could only apprentice at the district municipal enterprise in Frýdlant, although he wanted to become an auto mechanic. From 1958 he participated in motorcycle races. After his apprenticeship, he worked as a machine adjuster in the Frýdlant Metal Works. From 1963 to 1965 he completed his basic military service in Žatec as a driver of Tatra 111, then he joined the Frýdlant hospital as a driver. He drove an ambulance for 32 years until his retirement in 1998. In 2024 he was living with his wife in Frýdlant. We were able to record the story of the witness thanks to support from the town of Frýdlant.

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  • Walter Plischke during recording in Frýdlant in March 2024
    Walter Plischke during recording in Frýdlant in March 2024
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  • Walter Plischke at the end of 4th grade
    Walter Plischke at the end of 4th grade
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  • Mum Hedwig (left of Dad) with her parents Reinhold and Berta Tandler and siblings - older sister Elfriede (*1908) and younger brothers Emil (*1910) and Ernst (*1911) in front of the house in Fojtka near Liberec, which exists no longer
    Mum Hedwig (left of Dad) with her parents Reinhold and Berta Tandler and siblings - older sister Elfriede (*1908) and younger brothers Emil (*1910) and Ernst (*1911) in front of the house in Fojtka near Liberec, which exists no longer
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  • The parents of the witness - mother Hedwig (1909-1983) and father Franz Josef Plischke (1906-1965), were married on 14 May 1932 in Stráž nad Nisou (then Althabendorf or Starý Habendorf)
    The parents of the witness - mother Hedwig (1909-1983) and father Franz Josef Plischke (1906-1965), were married on 14 May 1932 in Stráž nad Nisou (then Althabendorf or Starý Habendorf)
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  • Mum's sister Elfriede, a year older, who were carrying cancer medicine to, and her husband Elstner,
    Mum's sister Elfriede, a year older, who were carrying cancer medicine to, and her husband Elstner,
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  • Mum's family - the Tandlers from Fojtka (Voitsbach), from left: mum Hedwig, dad Reinhold, brothers Emil and Ernst, sister Elfriede and mum Berta, née Pietsch
    Mum's family - the Tandlers from Fojtka (Voitsbach), from left: mum Hedwig, dad Reinhold, brothers Emil and Ernst, sister Elfriede and mum Berta, née Pietsch
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  • The family of the witness´s mother - the Pietsch family in front of their house in Radčice near Liberec
    The family of the witness´s mother - the Pietsch family in front of their house in Radčice near Liberec
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  • Witness´s mother (first from left) with sister Elfriede and their mother in front of the house in Fojtka, which was demolished after the war
    Witness´s mother (first from left) with sister Elfriede and their mother in front of the house in Fojtka, which was demolished after the war
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  • Franz Josef Plischke's dad served in the Czechoslovak Army in Mukachevo, Subcarpathian Rus, in the 112th Artillery Regiment, 1927 - 100 days before the end of the military service
    Franz Josef Plischke's dad served in the Czechoslovak Army in Mukachevo, Subcarpathian Rus, in the 112th Artillery Regiment, 1927 - 100 days before the end of the military service
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  • Franz Josef Plischke (fifth from the right above the number 7) served in the Czechoslovak army in Mukachevo, Subcarpathian Rus, 112th Artillery Regiment, 1928 - 60 days until the end of the military service
    Franz Josef Plischke (fifth from the right above the number 7) served in the Czechoslovak army in Mukachevo, Subcarpathian Rus, 112th Artillery Regiment, 1928 - 60 days until the end of the military service
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  • Ernst Tandler's maternal uncle (sitting on the right) in the Czechoslovak army in Košice, early 1930s
    Ernst Tandler's maternal uncle (sitting on the right) in the Czechoslovak army in Košice, early 1930s
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  • Berta and Reinhold Tandler, maternal grandparents, whom he visited with his mother in the assembly camp in Stráž nad Nisou before their transport to Germany
    Berta and Reinhold Tandler, maternal grandparents, whom he visited with his mother in the assembly camp in Stráž nad Nisou before their transport to Germany
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  • Grandmother Plischke, who lived with her daughter near Magdeburg in East Germany after the displacement
    Grandmother Plischke, who lived with her daughter near Magdeburg in East Germany after the displacement
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  • Witness´s father with his sister, married name Wünsch
    Witness´s father with his sister, married name Wünsch
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  • The house at 263 Horská Street in the Liberec district of Ruprechtice, where the witness lived with his parents until 1954
    The house at 263 Horská Street in the Liberec district of Ruprechtice, where the witness lived with his parents until 1954
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  • Witness Fthe fifth from the left in the Rudolfov primary school in Liberec
    Witness Fthe fifth from the left in the Rudolfov primary school in Liberec
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  • Primary school in Rudolfov in Liberec (first from the right, teacher Fibinger and his wife in the middle)
    Primary school in Rudolfov in Liberec (first from the right, teacher Fibinger and his wife in the middle)
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  • Classes in Rudolfov were often held outdoors
    Classes in Rudolfov were often held outdoors
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  • School trip to Máchovo lake
    School trip to Máchovo lake
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  • School trip to the Humprecht Castle (the witness with binoculars in the front row)
    School trip to the Humprecht Castle (the witness with binoculars in the front row)
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  • In the Rudolfov primary school (in the bench on the left)
    In the Rudolfov primary school (in the bench on the left)
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  • Trip with mum (left) and Mrs. Vocásková
    Trip with mum (left) and Mrs. Vocásková
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  • Photos from the mop factory where the witness´s mother worked after the war - the photo shows the national manager of the factory, Mr. Zahradník
    Photos from the mop factory where the witness´s mother worked after the war - the photo shows the national manager of the factory, Mr. Zahradník
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  • Grandma and Grandpa Tandler in front of their house in Katzwang near Nuremberg, 1957
    Grandma and Grandpa Tandler in front of their house in Katzwang near Nuremberg, 1957
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  • Mother's deported family in Katzwang near Nuremberg - witness´s grandparents, uncle and aunt and great-grandmother
    Mother's deported family in Katzwang near Nuremberg - witness´s grandparents, uncle and aunt and great-grandmother
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  • Paternal relatives who lived in Dresden after the war, where the witness and his father visited them in 1954
    Paternal relatives who lived in Dresden after the war, where the witness and his father visited them in 1954
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  • The town of Waltenhofer in Bavaria, where mother's brother Ernst lived, whom the witness visited in 1980
    The town of Waltenhofer in Bavaria, where mother's brother Ernst lived, whom the witness visited in 1980
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  • Witness with a motorcycle during races in the Jizera Mountains in the early 1960s
    Witness with a motorcycle during races in the Jizera Mountains in the early 1960s
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  • Mum and her dog, with whom they lived in the factory in Bílý Potok until 1965
    Mum and her dog, with whom they lived in the factory in Bílý Potok until 1965
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  • Mum with cat in front of house number 88 in Bílé Potok
    Mum with cat in front of house number 88 in Bílé Potok
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  • Commemoration event after the death of Klement Gottwald in front of the local national committee in Kateřinky, Liberec, March 1953
    Commemoration event after the death of Klement Gottwald in front of the local national committee in Kateřinky, Liberec, March 1953
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  • Rudolfov (Rudolfstahl), where the witness went to school, archive photo
    Rudolfov (Rudolfstahl), where the witness went to school, archive photo
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  • Tourist hostel in Neugersdorf, where mother's sister lived after the expulsion
    Tourist hostel in Neugersdorf, where mother's sister lived after the expulsion
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  • Hospital in Frýdlant, where the witness worked as an ambulance driver
    Hospital in Frýdlant, where the witness worked as an ambulance driver
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  • The building of the former spinning mill in Bílý Potok, where the father of the witness worked and where the family lived in 1954-1965
    The building of the former spinning mill in Bílý Potok, where the father of the witness worked and where the family lived in 1954-1965
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