V TĚCHTO MÍSTECH POLOŽILI SVÉ ŽIVOTY PŘI OSVOBOZOVÁNÍ CHODSKA AMERIČTÍ VOJÁCI. ČEST JEJICH PAMÁTCE DUBEN 1945 (“AMERICAN SOLDIERS LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES TO LIBERATE THE CHODSKO REGION. HONOR TO THEIR MEMORY! APRIL 1945.”)
The men of the 90th Infantry Division entered an exchange of fire near Výhledy. This took place nearby the gamekeeper’s lodge, which had been occupied by the Hitlerjugend. They had a training center in a nearby hotel atop Výhledy. Heavy fighting also took place between Capartice and Výhledy, during which the 90th Division lost three further men. The army established a watchtower atop Výhledy from which observers could see all the way to Domažlice.
A young hunter who had witnessed the events later recalled that they had to make several trips with their wagon when clearing away the bodies of the dead German soldiers. These soldiers were mainly youth from the above-mentioned Hitlerjugend.
Site: the road from Klenčí pod Čerchovem to Capartice, nearby the house atop Výhledy. Inscription on plaque: V TĚCHTO MÍSTECH TRAGICKY ZAHYNULO PĚT RUDOARMĚJCŮ PŘI PŘEVÁŽENÍ Z NĚMECKÉHO ZAJATECKÉHO TÁBORA V KVĚTNU 1945. JSOU POCHOVÁNI NA HŘBITOVĚ V KLENČÍ (“FIVE RED ARMY SOLDIERS DIED TRAGICALLY IN THIS PLACE DURING THEIR TRANSPORT FROM A GERMAN POW CAMP IN MAY 1945. THEY ARE BURIED AT THE CEMETERY IN KLENČÍ.”)
The Paths of Liberation—The Pilsen Region