Mum always made the cop a coffee, and he sat with us for a while. I guess he always crossed Dad off the list and went on his way
Roman Prajzler was born on 19 April 1957 in Rokytnice nad Jizerou. Before he began primary school he moved with his parents to Prague. He missed the mountains and the countryside, and so he applied to be a Scout as soon as the Czech Scouting Movement was renewed for the second time in 1968. His Dejvice troop was active until 1972, when Scouting was dissolved once again. But the Communist regime‘s aversion to Scouting did not hurt the witness as much as the fact that on 21 August 1969, on the first anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, his father was arrested during a protest. The family had absolutely no information about him for three months. Roman Prazler‘s father spent three quarters of a year in prison. And after his release he was regularly checked on at his home by State Security.