Jozef Strašík

“I came to the commander. At first he introduced himself: ‘I am this and that. Not Svoboda, but Sloboda, I come from Bratislava.’ And he asked me, why I was there. I said: ‘I don’t know.’ He continued if I wanted to know the reason and I said I did, because I was interested why I had to be in PTP. When he asked me, if I wanted to hear it privately or publically, I said he could say it among all, so that everyone knew what I had committed to deserve this. So he read that, there were more guys present. At first he read my evaluation from the beginning of the war, where I was really praised and then he read: ‘The family of high technical level and of religious fanatics!’”

“A unit of partisans came over, about 5 – 6, max 10 men. Their commander introduced himself: ‘If you can, please, help us and give us what you can.’ We helped them and probably not even a week passed and another group came. They didn’t introduce themselves at all, had guns and didn’t ask anyone anything. They turned our whole house upside down, took everything they liked and ran away!”