Guerrilla Warfare

“We simply got a message that this and that was going to happen there and there. For example: They'll go in the direction Chromeč–Bludov. There were German military leaders. So we cut the posts and disrupted the lines. Shoo off before someone comes. And then they were in a trouble. By the time they found it and set it right we were laughing. In any case it was no combat because partly there was simply nowhere to hide, those were no woods for our activities, and partly we weren't armed properly. We had weapons, pistols and hunting guns – shot guns. I think there was just one shot gun in our group. Bittner had it. That was all. So what could we do then? We could do only subversive activities.”

• born in Zábřeh na Moravě on February 5th, 1925
• involved in the resistance activities from 1940 till 1944
• joined the guerrilla on May 24th, 1944
• joined the so called group of the young Zábřeh that focused mainly on subversive activities
• towards the end of the war he took part in a few armed attacks on German soldiers
• excluded from the KSČ (the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia) after the check in 1948
• worked in Jednota Zábřeh from 1948 till his retirement
• lives in Mohelnice at present