This also was from same article. Interesting pre war tension.


Military History: Where in Germany are you from?

Neumann: I was born in 1922 in the Sudetenland, which became part of Czechoslovakia when that republic was created in 1919. We lived in a little town called Romerstadt in peace with the Czechs until about 1937; then things changed. In our town of about 5,000 people they put about 50 secret policemen. They started putting Germans in camps from which some never returned. We were very happy when the German army came in October 10, 1938. For us it was very personal. One man who was a professor at our high school and wrote for a German cultural magazine, with a specialty of gardening, was arrested with his two sons. They were only given rotten cabbage leaves to eat, so he had to run to the toilet. On his third trip to the toilet the guards, who were no military but civilians, clubbed him to death in from of his two sons