ŽIDÉ A SLOVENSKÁ ARMÁDA V PRVNÍM ROCE PO JEJÍM VZNIKU

• Authors: Pejs Oldřich

Title variants

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Jews and Slovak Army in the first year after its origin

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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Since the times of autonomy in the fall of 1938, the Slovak society underwent transformations of the democratic atmosphere towards authoritarian government. One of their goals was to exclude the Jewish population from the political, economic and cultural life by gradual escalation of the discriminative measures. Following the independence of Slovakia in March 1939, a number of legal regulations were adopted, aimed at absolute isolation of the Jewish ethnicity. The author presents, how the anti-Jewish rhetoric reflected in the military environment. Slovak Army as the power institution adapted to the requirements for the radical solution to the “Jewish question” and identified the Jews as the disruptive force and undesirable element for which there is no place in the Army. Since July 1939, they proceeded to creation of the first working units composed of the soldiers of Jewish nationality in active service. Isolation of the Jewish soldiers was markedly enforced during the war campaign on Poland in late summer of 1939, when a large number of reservists were recruited. The Ministry of Interior intended to place all the Jewish men capable of work in the work camps, whereas the Slovak Army was supposed to prepare the command and guard staff for this purpose. The intention of the Ministry of Interior was not successfully implemented. The new Military Service Act of January 1940 excluded Jews from the Slovak military forces and subjected them to work duty.

Keywords

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MILITARY HISTORY; SLOVAK REPUBLIC; SLOVAK ARMY; JEWS

• Publisher: Vojenský historický ústav Bratislava
• Journal: Vojenská história
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 88 - 109

Contributors

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Pejs Oldřich

• Kafkova 53, 160 00 Praha, Czech Republic