Over the Hills to Germany

Over the Hills to Germany

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Chudenín, meadow 19016, 340 22 Chudenín, Czech Republic
Border Guards Waiting Behind Haycocks
Border Guards Waiting Behind HaycocksFrantišek Wiendl

František Wiendl was one of the people who decided to help others to flee across the border after the coup d’état in February 1948. On one of his journeys to the border he got delayed and when he emerged from the forest above the Chudenín village, it was already light. Border guards with mach…


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Klatovy - Hůrka Janovická 776, 339 01 Klatovy, Czech Republic
Arrested on the Way for Apples
Arrested on the Way for ApplesFrantišek Wiendl

On November 20, 1949, František Wiendl and his friend, Prantl, helped a group of seven people flee across the border. They borrowed a car large enough for a bigger group and the two of them set out from Klatovy. The group was to be picked in the village of Beňovy. Beforehand they prepared a s…


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Liščí – Valley 19014, 340 22 Všeruby, Czech Republic
Children´s Crying
Children´s CryingFrantišek Wiendl

František Weindl used cross the valley between two villages Liščí and Červené Dřevo quite often in 1948 – he was helping people across the border. Once he went with a group of adults and a baby. Though the baby had sleeping pills it woke up and started to cry during the riskiest part of the way w…


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Nýrsko, Railway Station Nádražní 602, 340 22 Nýrsko, Czech Republic
The First Time across the Iron Curtain
The First Time across the Iron CurtainFrantišek Wiendl

The people who helped others to get across the Iron Curtain usually came from the border area and were very well familiar with it. František Wiendl who came from Klatovy was an exception to this rule. In the spring of 1949, his father František Wiendl senior was held prisoner for his a…


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This moderately difficult route runs through the hilly region over the foothills of the Šumava Mountains and is 25 kilometres long. It is suitable for drivers and cyclists (roads and paved paths). The planning of the route was inspired by a trail used by František Wiendl, a native from Klatovy, who was guiding refugees over the border to Germany in 1948-1949. František Wiendl was born on December 31, 1923 in Klatovy. The Communists reaching the power and especially the death of Jan Masaryk forced him, his father and his friends to join the so-called third resistance movement against the Communists. They started with writing the anti-communists signs and printing the pamphlets. Since April 1949 they also helped people to cross the border and were in contact with agent Alois Suttý. The movement was gradually broken – at first because of betrayal, František Wiendl and his co-worker were arrested in November 1949. And then, in spring 1950 the rest of the group, including agent Suttý and Wiendl´s father, was arrested, too. In December 1950 they had a trial at a court. Agent Suttý was sentenced to death penalty. František Wiendl Jr. was sentenced to eighteen years and his father to twenty-five years for high treason.
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