Salt over Gold
Because Ferdinand Maneth was a soldier in the Wehrmacht forces, he was taken to the camp for captives in Kutiny near Újezd u Tišnova in 1947. He did not have to go to work because he was wounded, so he used to stay in the camp. The captives lived in twenty-eight wooden barracks there and although there was a hospital, during the existence of the camp 118 people died there who were buried in Balákovo pole. Ferdinand Maneth still thinks that most of those people died of a lack of iodine: “My mother could come once a month and give me a package. If I did not have it I would die like the others. There died so many people, I do not know maybe hundreds, and all of that because we did not have food. Intentionally they gave us unsalted hulled grain soup. Every day the same and always salt-free and that was unhealthy; people cannot live without salt.” In Autumn 1947, Ferdinand Maneth was sent from Kutiny to the camp in Hodolany near Opava and after that he was released and got home.
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