The Germans were surprised by our low prices

Ladislav Minář was assisting in the construction of the fortification in the Czechoslovak borderland at the end of the 1930s. In 1938 he witnessed the arrival of the Nazi army to Zborov, a municipality that became part of the Third Reich; “The Nazis set up three machine gun pits. Nobody would probably be able to pass via road. And nobody even walked there, so the soldiers left on Saturday 1 October at 3 pm, with rifles on their shoulders. I carried the rifle for one of them – he let me carry it. Then we said goodbye to them. They went to the Grulich fortification and we walked to the village. The next morning, on Sunday, the Nazis came to the village and asked the shopkeeper to open the shop – they were hungry. One German took a red fifty Mark note and went shopping for food. It bought him an armful of rolls, a heap of salami and liquor – and he didn't know what to do with it; he was surprised by the low prices.”