Slovak Republic

Slovakia, 1939–1945. Draft, not yet reviewed

The Slovak Republic was a partially recognized client state of Nazi Germany which existed between 14 March 1939 and 4 April 1945 in Central Europe. A one-party state governed by the far-right Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, the Slovak Republic is primarily known for its collaboration with Nazi Germany, which included sending troops to the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the Soviet Union in 1941. In 1942, the country deported 58,000 Jews to German-occupied Poland, paying Germany 500 Reichsmarks for each deportee. The Slovak Republic was abolished after the Soviet conquest in 1945, and its territory was reintegrated into the recreated Third Czechoslovak Republic.

Seat of power: Bratislava

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• The Slovak Republic was an authoritarian regime that adopted some elements of Nazism.
• The state continued the legal system of Czechoslovakia, which was modified only gradually.
• Seventy-five percent of Slovaks were Catholics, and most of the remainder belonged to the Lutheran and Greek Catholic churches.

Picture

The Slovak National Uprising was an attempted insurrection organised by the Slovak resistance during the Second World War.

Image: Peter Zeli Bodružalský (photo) - cc-by-3.0 Jozef Jankovič (sculpture), Public domain, file

Sources

• Slovak Republic (1939–1945) (Wikipedia)
• Slovak Republic (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

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