They knocked him out and threw him into the basement just like they did with his dad before
Kveta Pěničková recalls the stories she had been told by her life partner Hans Bayer, about what he witnessed as a German from the Sudetenland shortly after the war, when the notorious Revolutionary Guards arrived in the Bohemian Forest: “They came to terrorize the population of Bučina. They had all the men aged fourteen and above assemble in the Fastner Hotel and began to interrogate them. Hans and his father were first according to the alphabet. At first, his father was taken away. They didn’t know what was going on since he wasn’t coming back for a long time. Then it was Hans’s turn. They took him and made him walk down an aisle between the guardsmen who beat on him from both sides. Then he came to a table where a man who spoke Czech fluently was sitting. He showed him a paperweight with a swastika on it. He asked what it was. Hans of course replied that it was a Hakenkreuz. He got a blow to the head. The man showed him a picture of Hitler and again, he was beaten. Then they put him on the floor and beat him up so ferociously that he lost his kidney. Finally, they threw him down the stairs to the basement like a piece of cloth. He landed directly on his dad.”
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Květa Pěničková
Květa Pěničková was born on March 26, 1934, the only child of a glass cutter from Velká Chuchle. During World War II and in particular in the days of the Prague Uprising, she witnessed a number of dramatic situations with her family, such as the declaration of martial law and the execution of inhabitants of Chuchle. After 1948, her father fell victim to the repressions and the nationalization of former sole traders and Květa was prevented from university studies. The whole family was deeply affected by the injustices they were subjected to and by the gloomy atmosphere of those days. It thus comes as no surprise that Květa – fourteen years old at that time – hated the communist regime. In addition to her resistance to the communists, she also became interested in the stories of people who fled from communism to the West. She would listen to these stories on Radio Free Europe. She has developed a life-long interest in the stories of fugitives, smugglers, agents and everything related to the Iron Curtain. It all culminated with Květa becoming one of the initiators and organizers of the creation of a monument to the smugglers that is to be found in the vicinity of Františkov nearby Kvilda. Over the years, she kept investigating and researching the stories and made many personal and pen friendships with some of the actors of these stories. She’s always been trying to pass on her own memories as well as the memories of others.
