„...WENN WIR UNSER GANZES SCHAFFEN UND ARBEITEN AUF DEN SIEG AUFRICHTEN.“ DEUTSCHE ARBEITSDIENSTGRUPPE SLOVENSKEJ PRACOVNEJ SLUŽBY

• Authors: Schvarc Michal , Hertel Maroš

Title variants

EN

„...wenn wir unser ganzes Schaffen und Arbeiten auf den Sieg aufrichten.“ Deutsche Arbeitsdienstgruppe of the Slovak Labour Service

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with the hitherto little explored mass organisation of the wartime Slovak state. Specifically, it concerns the Slovak Labour Service, its sub-unit the German Labour Group. It traces its development between 1941 and 1944, analysing the problems it had to face throughout its relatively short existence. This was, above all, the fundamental problem of the lack of human resources. For this reason, it could not fulfil its main task, i.e. to serve as an instrument for the ideological indoctrination of young men of German nationality aged 18-25. The project in which the leadership of the Deutsche Partei had high hopes failed. Recruitment into the Waffen-SS was given priority on Berlin‘s instructions, and the leader of the Slovak Germans, Franz Karmasin, had no choice but to accept this political decision.

Keywords

EN

SLOVENSKÁ PRACOVNÁ SLUŽBA; WAFFEN-SS; GERMANS; FRANZ KARMASIN

• Publisher: Vojenský historický ústav Bratislava
• Journal: Vojenská história
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 37 - 50

Contributors

author

Schvarc Michal

• Oddelenie dejín 20. storočia, Historický ústav SAV, v.v.i. Klemensova 19, Bratislava, 814 99, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9071-0062

author

Hertel Maroš

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9543-4917

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.69809/vojhist.2025.29.1.3