An unbinding letter

In 1943, Stanislava Šprincová became a forced laborer in the Famo Company in the border town of Grulich, (today Králíky), which produced components for German military aircraft. In addition to the forced laborers and the regular employees of the company, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war worked in the factory as well. Stanislava Šprincová spoke English and French, and thus she began to exchange letters with a Scottish prisoner of war. Eventually, because of the letters, she ended up in jail: "One Scotchman sent me a very interesting letter and so I responded. The boys who worked as electricians in the factory would pass on the letters. However, I foolishly took one letter home to Olomouc to show it to my parents. And when I went back to Králíky, I forgot that letter at home. When the Gestapo later came to arrest my father, they found that letter in the drawer. It was a combination of a number of coincidences and bad luck. They found the letter and so they arrested me. They asked me where I met that prisoner of war. I told them that I didn’t even know him in person. I tried to downplay it but that wouldn’t help me. I tried to protect the electricians who had passed the letters. Mrs. Šprincová was eventually punished for her contacts with foreign POWs. On November 4th, 1944, she was sentenced to eleven months and taken to a prison for juveniles in Vienna.