“When reporting you never know whether the other person says the truth or just pretends. I have never spoken about that stuff, not even with my wife. I'm used to keeping such things for myself.”
Emanuel Kop was born in a Czech family in Vienna in 1913. His father was very much engaged in compatriotic groups, especially in the gym club Orel and in other Catholic-oriented groups. The head gymnast of the local Orel group kept contacts with the Czechoslovak Headquarters. He made the young Czech patriot Emanuel to cooperate with the Czechoslovak Headquarters before the war already. After the occupation of Austria he fled to Prague and consequently to Poland. He left with a smaller group of Czechoslovaks from Warsaw, they took one of the last trains towards the East. They were held by the Soviets. Mr Kop left for Lithuanian Kaunas since he was scared of being sent to gulag. He was shortly imprisoned by both the Soviets and the Nazis. He lurked about the relatives of his wife, whom he married in Lithuania. He lived in Kaunas till 1944 when he joined the Czechoslovak Army. He served in the Engineer Corps at Dukla, he was a Headquarter clerk at the end of the war.
