K existenci internačního tábora pro válečné zajatce v Humenném (1942 – 1944)

Existence of an Internment Camp for Prisoners-of-War in Humenne (1942 – 1944)

Autor: PEJS Oldřich

PEJS, Oldřich: K existenci internačního tábora pro válečné zajatce v Humenném (1942 – 1944)

PEJS, Oldřich: To the existence of an internment camp for prisoners-of-war in Humenne (1942 – 1944).

Vojenská história, 1, 12, 2008, pp. 70–92.

The author focuses on the situation in the Internment camp for the prisoners -of -war in Humenné where there were 70 people altogether, from which 52 French and 18 Yugoslavians soldiers. Th e Central Slovak authorities could not find a consensus in their legal competence for a long time. Th e Ministry of the National Security considered the military convicts deserted from German convict camps and captured in Slovakia as political refugees, it tried to pass its responsibility forward and pretended they did not exist. The Ministry of Interior with a decisive influence of The Office of the State Security pushed through a state-security approach aligned with the practice of Police criminal law management with the captured refugee soldiers and their following expel from the country. Th e author points at the fact that in the case of their stay in Slovakia the Office of the State Security requested their strict isolation and discipline. Th e Foreign Office considered the captured French and Yugoslavians as military persons from the neutral countries, who were, however, to be prevented from a military performance against Germany, the Slovak ally. Th e Slovak Red Cross (SČK) was the only one to consider them as the war victims. Slovak central authorities finally came to the point to apply the principles of The Geneva Convention on the Treatment of military refugees, on the captured and interned military refugees in Humenné, to which Slovakia had acceded yet in 1939, per analogiam.

Key words: Military history. Slovakia. World War Two. Internment camp in Humenné.

 

Ročník: 12 | Číslo: 1/2008 | Stránky: 70–92