VZNIK SLOVENSKEJ NÁRODNEJ BANKY A KONŠTITUOVANIE SLOVENSKEJ MENY VO SVETLE NEMECKÝCH DOKUMENTOV

• Authors: Schvarc Michal , Schriffl David

Title variants

EN

Origin of the Slovak National Bank and the establishment of the Slovak currency in the light of German documents

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In the period 1939-1945 German - the Slovak relations did not exist only on the political level, but also on a significant degree in the economic sphere. Apart from political domination of Slovakia, the Nazis were especially concerned with the control and the quickest possible incorporation of the Slovak economy into the German economic organism, which had to be reshaped into the so-called great economic space (Grossraumwirtschaft). A secret protocol about economic and financial cooperation concluded between representatives of the two states on 23 March 1939 in Berlin as a supplement to the 'Treaty of Protection' became a launch pad for securing the dominance of German capital in Slovakia. Article II of the protocol concerned the establishment of a central bank and constituting the Slovak currency. The sources considered here present precisely this problem. The documents do not concern only the atmosphere of the talks, the share of Germany in the establishment of the central bank or the fears of the Slovak participants for their own future. They also document the pragmatism and purposefulness of the Nazi economic policy towards the 'protected state'.

Keywords

EN

GERMAN - SLOVAK RELATIONS; GERMAN CAPITAL; NAZI GERMANY; REICHSBANK; SLOVAK CURRENCY; SLOVAK NATIONAL BANK; SLOVAK STATE; SLOVAKIA

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 99-121
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Schvarc Michal

author

Schriffl David

• PhDr. Michal Schvarc, PhD., Historicky ustav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA090515