FREKVENTANT VOJENSKÉHO VYSOKOŠKOLSKÉHO INTERNÁTU VÍŤAZOSLAV HEČKO A JEHO CESTA DO A ZO SLOVENSKÉHO NÁRODNÉHO POVSTANIA

• Authors: Chorvát Peter

Title variants

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Víťazoslav Hečko, a student of the Military College Boarding School, and his journey to and from the Slovak National Uprising

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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This study focuses on the military and wartime experiences of the prominent Slovak writer and translator, Víťazoslav Hečko. In 1942, Hečko began studying at the Faculty of Philosophy at Slovak University and simultaneously became a student at the Military College Boarding School (Vojenský vysokoškolský internát – VVI) in Bratislava. He participated in the Slovak National Uprising, was captured by the German Army, but managed to escape and hide for several days. On the 16th November 1944, he returned to Bratislava and returned to the Military College Boarding School. While the Slovak Republic still existed, he achieved the rank of lieutenant in auxiliary healthcare. The study also highlights the fates of those members of military personnel who returned to the capital of the Slovak Republic after the military defeat of the Uprising and intended to continue the activities they had left behind before its outbreak.

Keywords

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VÍŤAZOSLAV HEČKO; MILITARY COLLEGE BOARDING SCHOOL; SLOVAK NATIONAL UPRISING; 1944

• Publisher: Vojenský historický ústav Bratislava
• Journal: Vojenská história
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 87 – 95

Contributors

author

Chorvát Peter

• Vojenský historický ústav, Krajná 27, 821 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7361-7541

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.69809/vojhist.2024.28.3.5