Vstup slovenských vzdušných zbraní do vojny proti ZSSR v hláseniach Nemeckej leteckej misie
The Entrance of Slovak Air Forces into the War against the USSR in the Reports of German Air Mission
Autor: BAKA, Igor – MEŠKO, Marek
BAKA, Igor – MEŠKO, Marek: Vstup Slovenských vzdušných zbraní do vojny proti ZSSR v hláseniach Nemeckej vojenskej misie.
BAKA, Igor – MEŠKO, Marek: The invasion of Slovak Air Forces into the war against the USSR in the reports of German Air Mission.
Vojenská história, 1, 14, 2010, pp. 94– 114.
The authors concentrated on the activates of German Air Mission that has not been thoroughly focused on in Slovak history. They point out the problems with the availability of documentation having the originals in Bundes Archive – Military Archive in Freiburg, whereas several copies are kept in Slovak National Archive in the field – Alexandrian Archive. Th is one has not been investigated a lot so far. The quality of the copies in the digital form and microfilms varies a lot in it. Together with German Military Mission, the German Air Mission was to serve as a counseling authority for the Ministry of the national Defense of Slovakia. The Slovak Army was to be built according to the matrix of the Germany on behalf of their management. However, the Slovak Air Forces had a very obsolete air fleet from the times of Czechoslovak republic, thus it was not able to keep up with the new trends in the development of the military technique of highly-developed armies. The activity of both the authorities is well-recorded due to the fact they were sending regular quarterly reports to their superior authorities (in case of the Air Mission it was Reich Minister of the Air Traffic and the Chief Commander of the Air Forces Hermann Göring). The work about the activities of the German Air Mission tracks its actions in the summertime 1941, during the Slovak Army entrance to the war against the USSR.
Key words: Military History. Slovakia. WWII. German Air Mission. Slovak Air Force.
Ročník: 14 | Číslo: 1/2010 | Stránky: 94—114
