Vzťahy Slovákov a Čechov v západnom vojenskom odboji a postoje poľskej exilovej vlády v rokoch 1939 – 1943

Relations between Slovaks and Czechs in Military Resistance in the West and the Approach of Polish Exile Government in 1939 – 1943

Autor: SEGEŠ Dušan

SEGEŠ, Dušan: Vzťahy Slovákov a Čechov v západnom vojenskom odboji a postoje poľskej exilovej vlády v rokoch 1939 – 1943.

SEGEŠ, Dušan: The relations between the Slovaks and the Czechs in western military resistance and the approach of Polish Exile Government in 1939 – 1943.

Vojenská história, 3, 12, 2008, pp. 66 – 86.

The topic of Slovak-Czech relations in Czechoslovak military troops in the west in WWII represents a relevant phenomenon that was not particularly approached in history. There had been several analogies in the military environment between the quality and the development of political relations in the leadership of Czechoslovak (Czech and Slovak) resistance movement abroad. It was Slovak issue and mainly the solution aft er the War that had been prevailing in the movement. The relations between the Slovaks and the Czechs drew the general attention abroad in WWII. There had been an intensive interest of the Poles reflecting the Slovak issue not only in political but also in the military way. Poland was the first to enable and legally regulate the formation of Czechoslovak military troops abroad in WWII. (Czech and Slovak Legions).There was also a remarkable Polish-Slovak cooperation in the Middle-East, where Jozef Rudinský, a former close cooperator of Milan Hodža, initiated and managed the movement of Slovak members of 11th Czechoslovak battalion– the East. His main aim was that the Slovak soldiers resign from the Czechoslovak troops and form independent Slovak troops in exile, or enter the Polish Military Forces. This military-political action in 1943 was topped by Memorandum of the Slovak soldiers of 1st Czechoslovak independent armed brigade in Great Britain for Polish Minister of Defense Gen. Marian Kukiel that is the topic of the free episode of this article.

Key words: Military History. Slovaks and the Czechs. World War Two. Polish Exile Government. 1939 – 1943.

Ročník: 12 | Číslo: 3/2008 | Stránky: 66 – 86