Počiatky slovenskej vojenskej spravodajskej služby 1939 – 1941

The Beginnings of the Slovak Military Intelligence Service in 1939 – 1941

Autor: ŠIMUNIČ Pavol

ŠIMUNIČ, Pavol:  Počiatky slovenskej vojenskej spravodajskej služby 1939 – 1941.

ŠIMUNIČ, Pavol: The early beginnings of the Slovak Military Intelligence Service in 1939 – 1941.

Vojenská história, 2, 16, 2012, pp 39-78.   

In this study paper the author analyzes an issue which has so far been treated only marginally by military historiography, more or less, as a partial problem in analyzing the research results on other issues (Slovak Army, regime, Slovakia’s suppressive power apparatus, etc.) The author is the first scholar in Slovakia to describe the activities of the Slovak Intelligence Service, based on his own research in the archives. It should be highlighted that the author outlines the issue in a wider context of the internal political and foreign policy developments of the young Slovak State. Great attention is given to the organizational development of the intelligence service in the forming Slovak Army. The author emphasizes the changes in its development and formation in comparison to the previous developments of this Army component over the duration of the 1st and 2nd Czechoslovak Republic. Great attention is paid to the conditions determining the possibilities for building the agency and its operations, especially the Third Reich’s attitude towards offensive military intelligence operations under the conditions of Slovak ‘satellitism’. In doing so, the author relies on a solid heuristic database, mainly formed by documents of German provenance. Most attention is paid, of course, to the activities of the intelligence service.

Key words: Military history. Slovakia. WWII. Military intelligence service. The years 1939 – 1941.

Ročník: 16 | Číslo: 2/2012 | Stránky: 39-78