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The violence against German civilians, which had been occurring on the territory of Czechoslovakia since May 1945, was not allowed to be talked about for many decades. Further persecution of Germans, robbing them and driving them out of their homes was also taboo. In a short documentary film, Adam Drda focuses on the fate of historian František Hýbl (1941), who tried to break the silence after the fall of communism and documented the massacre of two hundred and seventy Carpathian Germans on the Swedish chances near Přerov. The film also deals with the fate of Ignác Žerníček 1924-2020), who lived in the now defunct settlement of Štolnava (Stolenhau), where in 1945 he discovered the bodies of the murdered German Krusche family.