Miloslav Komárek

"How was it organized then? When a foreigner from Germany or somewhere else in Western Europe wanted to hunt a deer in the Jeseníky Mountains?" - "It was all done through Čedok. Čedok was connected with our forest directorate in Karlovice. They made the arrangements, and the gamekeeper had no idea that he was going to guide someone. Then they sent a message about it and did a little training on what we could and couldn't talk to them about. Which was completely unnecessary, because we didn't understand them and they didn't understand us." - "Who gave you the training?" - "The director of the forestry plant." - "And what did he tell you? What you can and can't tell them?" - "Like not to swear at the Russians and so on. To act like we're just here for the deer, but what's going on in the world around us we don't care. Or rather, we mustn't care."

"People who know Libava recalled that the original houses and villages often served as targets." - "Yes. Churches, too." - "You experienced that?" - "Because it was depopulated. The soldiers bought everything, people had to move out. That's how I experienced it. But I wasn't there long. Exercises lasted maybe one night, and in the whole war it was three or four nights of everything. It must have been very expensive for the army to fire the bigger guns. That's why they didn't waste it." - "So you remember that displaced objects were used as targets?!" - "Yes. But that's not abnormal. That's not abnormal. It's done everywhere. Wherever there was a military firing range, all these things were used as targets."