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The memoir literature can be used as a basic historical source besides the archival documents. Even combats of the final phase of the World War II in southwester Slovakia can use some of such books. There are several groups of Soviet authors: Generals (Matvei V. Zakharov, Issa A. Pliev) were largely responsible for leading Soviet military operations in this area. They offer their point of view, seen from their commanding positions, focusing on operational problems, sometimes denying their failures, sometimes overestimating their own contributions. The other group of authors (Dmitri F. Loza, E.-N. Leonid S. Loginov, Gagni B. Uladjiev) consist of non-commanding officers and common soldiers. They report of their experiences much more common way, recording their everyday problems, fears, opinions. Sometimes they reveal many operational details that enable us to see several tactical features of combats that had taken place more than seventy years ago.
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For Slovaks of the inter-war period, Prague the capital of their new Czechoslovak state represented an attractive place to search for employment opportunities, study, political activity and leisure activities. Drawing on memoir literature, the paper maps the Prague localities associated with the presence of Slovaks from various social groups. Accommodation of students in a monastic hostel in Hradčany, the Štefánik College and Academic House in the Straková Academy contributed to shaping the views of life and important cultural activities of members of the coming generation (Mladé Slovensko, Svojeť, Detvan, DAV). Artistic cafes and wine-bars provided communication between Slovakia and the Slovak intellectuals in Prague. The slight Slovakization of 1930s Prague was expressed in the society and publishing sphere with the formation of the Society of the Slovak House, establishment of editorial offices of Slovak newspapers and the opening of Ján Smrek’s so-called Slovak Consulate. The Zlatá hus (Golden Goose) Hotel became the traditional place for holding commercial, political and informal meetings between Slovaks.
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When mapping cultural and, more specifically, literary history of the Slovaks living in historical Hungarian Lowland, which is - in terms of contemporary political geography - mainly the territory of Slovak enclaves in Serbia, Hungary and Romania, what appears to be one of the important sources is memoirs, written in various periods of time. In the context of the research into the times at the turn of the 20th century, stretching into the following decades of the 20th century, there are several sources of this kind available in books as well as in manuscripts. The subject of the paper is the issues in editorial processing of the memoirs written by Slovak notables who lived and worked in Lowland, especially in the early 20th century, either all their lives (Ján Čajak) or just for a short time (Ivan Thurzo, Pavel Gallo), alternatively by those who, after moving to Slovakia, contributed to the cultural life of that time (Andrej Mráz). The selected writings are similar in subject. However, what is different is the nature of the preserved materials as well as the size, composition, and especially the way they were presented to the readers. While Čajak´s memoirs have not been published to date, those of Thurzo´s and Gall´s were abridged in comparison with the original manuscript versions, and so were those written by Mráz, which were first published in a magazine and later as a book. The focus is given to the textological principles applied to the book edition, editorial changes made in the manuscripts and the issue of the editor´s authority to change the original text.
Studia Historica Nitriensia
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2019
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vol. 23
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issue 1
171 – 192
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The memoir literature can be used as a basic historical source besides the archival documents. Even combats of the final phase of the World War II in South-Western Slovakia can use some of such books. There are two main groups of authors: German Generals (Heinz Guderian, Johannes Frieβner, Hermann Balck) were more or less responsible for leading German military operations in this area. They offer their point of view, seen from their staff-offices, focusing on operational problems, sometimes justifying their own decisions that might have shown themselves wrong. The other group of authors (H. Schmidt, E.-N. von Diest-Körber, K. Volleth, F. Hirschfelder) consist of minor officers and common soldiers. They report of their experiences much more common way, recording their everyday problems, fears, opinions. Thus they enable us to see them not only as members of a certain army, but also as humans.
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