My father was German, but he felt himself to be Czechoslovak
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Krista Fleknová, née Zítková, was born on 28 January 1937 in Varnsdorf. Shortly after the beginning of World War II, the Germans arrested her father Rudolf Zaschke. To this day, the witness does not know exactly why. She believes it was because he was an anti-fascist. The witness´s father was in prison in Saxony until the end of the war. She lived in Varnsdorf with her mother of Czech nationality and her parents. At first she went to a German school, then from the third grade onwards to a Czech school in the post-war period. She did not feel any resentment either from the German children or later, as a half-German, from the Czechs. After returning from prison after the end of the war, her father sought to gain national administration of one of the local garden centres. But because he was German, he did not become the national administrator. On the contrary, he had to prove that he had been an anti-fascist throughout the war in prison. The wwitness graduated from a three-year secondary school of nursing. During her life she worked, for example, in the internal ward of hospitals, in a tuberculosis clinic, in a nursery and spent the longest part of her professional life in gynaecology. In 1956 she married Antonín Flekna. She was never interested in politics. She lived in Turnov, Varnsdorf and Česká Kamenice. She retired in 1991 and lived in Varnsdorf in the Děčín region in 2025.
