Killed Germans

“I have killed, well, hundreds of them, and I’m not saying that to boast. I didn’t feel sorry for them. I drove the tank to a defence position and I was firing around me till all of them kicked the bucket. I didn’t count them, but I have killed them. One day I captured a colonel, offered him to the Russians, and they didn’t want him. So I told them: ´Shoot him then.´”

• born February 7, 1917 in Vranov nad Topľou in Slovakia
• 1939, after failed emigration to the west went to the Soviet Union via Poland
• working near Moscow and in Karagand in Kazakhstan
• joined the army in Buzuluk, took part in fighting for Sokolovo, Kursk, Kyjev, Bílá Cerekev, Zhashkov, went through the Carpathian-Dukla operation and the Ostrava operation
• serving as a commander of a mortar squad, later as a tank commander
• after the war he holding a lieutenant’s rank
• 1951 arrested for 48 hours
• working in the textile industry, at the Ministry of Industry, and in a multinational company
• at present he is the vice-chairman of the Czechoslovak Association of Legionnaires