The Russians were only raping, but the rampage of the Czechs after the war was much worse
Marie Šubertová was born on 4 April 1937 into a mixed family in Moravský Karlov in the Sudetenland in Králice district. Her father Koloman Sailer was an Austrian German, her mother Emilie Sailer, née Skalická, was Czech from neighbouring Písařov. Both of her older siblings died during the Second World War. Her brother Josef died as a Wehrmacht soldier in 1943 on the Eastern Front. Her sister Emilie was a forced labourer, killed in the Allied bombing of Munich in April 1945. The family survived the post-war revenge of the Czechs in Karlov and, thanks to her mother‘s Czech origin, escaped the expulsion of the Germans from the Sudetenland. Her second husband, Zdeněk Šubert, was expelled from the Public Security (State Police), apparently because of his wife‘s contacts with relatives in the West. At her insistence, he also refused to work for the State Secret Police (StB). In 2021, Marie Šubertová had two sons and three grandchildren and lived alone in her family home in Moravský Karlov.