Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:52:59 +0200https://english.radio.cz/charles-ota-heller-a-soldier-age-nine-8557256© 2026 Radio Prague International In the last days of World War II, nine-year-old Ota Heller picked up a revolver and fired it at a German soldier. He did not wait to see if the man was still alive. For decades afterwards he talked to no one about the experience, and only recently has Ota Heller – or Charles Ota Heller, as he is now called – felt able to return to his memories of the war, collecting them in his book “Out of Prague”. In this week’s Czech Books he talks to David Vaughan. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/heller_ota.jpg?timestamp=1591247448 https://english.radio.cz/charles-ota-heller-a-soldier-age-nine-8557256 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9