The first victim they found
Alfred Bäcker found out about the end of World War II from a hospital in Vienna, where he stayed with pneumonia as a German Wehrmacht soldier. „I found out the war was lost for Germany and naturally wanted to go back to see my parents in Dobrá Voda. Yet I didn’t have a clue there was a revolution; I simply didn’t count on that. Civilians caught me, near Dobrá Voda, armed with guns and red bracelets; they were partisans asking me if I was German since I had German army car. They told me: ,You are German so leave the car here.‘ They took me to the head of the people´s committee in Dubičné, a village near České Budějovice. Partisans kept saying: ,Just shoot him!‘ The guy looked at me and asked: ,How many brothers and sisters have you got?‘ –, I have a brother.‘ –, What is his name?‘ – ,Vilém.‘ He shouted out: ,Lock him up!‘ Just so they would not shoot me because I was the first victim of those young people they run into.“ Alfréd Bäcker was increadibly lucky. The man he met had actually a pub in Dubičné and knew his parents personally. „He wanted to figure out if it was me from the questions because everyone thought I must have been dead already. He was glad I was alive. He took me to his home and sent his daughter to tell my parents I was going to be all right. Then he let me go free in a car and I got back to Budějovice. Within three hours we packed all our valuables with my parents and we managed to escape to Austria on 8th of May. I was driving an army car so we joined the German army and overcame all the barriers through Kaplic, which was already in Austria.“
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