English Translation

140 scared us so that we quickly fled to the shelter with blankets in our arms and it was after fatigue and also mostly after sleep. We gradually got used to similar everyday situations", František Jílek depicts his first impressions from the way to the empire. Then they were put into the old uniforms of soldiers of the former empire - black toy, green blouse with gold buttons, black bandages, lace scratches and black boat with Czech lioness, on the sleeve inscription "Technische Nothilfe." "When we first appeared in this impossible outfit on the street, we also attracted real attention to the few people who stayed in the city." The whole event of the deployment of high school youth into the empire caused great concern in the population of the Protectorate. In particular, this contributed to the fact that, for the first time on such a large scale, the boundary of 18 years, which had been respected until now, and the dangers of the work of TN helmets, consisting mainly of removing the wreckage, but sometimes also the release of the victims after the bombing. "Dortmund was said to have one of the most beautiful squares in Europe at a time of peace, from which there was not a single house left. The first task of our group was to tear down these dangerous and disturbed street walls with the help of the tractor and ropes, and behind us the Russian prisoners were manually and shovels were cleaned up to release the roadway...The people who remained were terrified after the raids, living in constant fear. Each night before dark, they concentrated in front of the squalid shelters of the entire group with prepared suitcases and were afraid to look at the sky as to whether "heute wiedr Tommy kot." TN commanders were mostly men who for age or health reasons were useless for the front deployment. "All our commanders have been physically marked somehow. The commander of the entire companie rank captain was a small gallbladed man with legs up to X, who especially excelled in black turfs, skinny with a sharp nose with glasses, a crooked spine and a weak voice. Furthermore, it was called "sanitary" who ruled in the infirmary with very thin legs - then it was Deputy Commander Dahlman - he liked to drink and when he was drunk, he was very dangerous. The leader of our platoon was a man I called a "shoulder" or a "bottle" - a figure with no shoulders, such a grumpy one, but a whole good man. The only woman Freulein Anna, who ruled the kitchen, where Eintopf, red cabbage, potatoes for peeling, which were served exclusively unpeeled. It was not much, but it was quite a polite-hungry situation.