Slovak Republic
1939–1945 client state of Nazi Germany
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| 2018 | Following the murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak, the largest demonstrations in Slovakia since 1989 began on SNP Square. |
| 2018 | Slovak public broadcaster RTVS initially nominated Jozef Tiso, president of the wartime Slovak Republic, as a contender in 'The Greatest Slovak' television poll, but subsequently excluded him after criticism. |
| 2017 | German historians Martin Zückert, Jürgen Zarusky, and Volker Zimmerman published the anthology 'Partisanen im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Der Slowakische Nationalaufstand im Kontext der europäischen Widerstandsbewegungen', analyzing the partisan movement in Slovakia and Europe between 1939 and 1945. |
| August 29 2015 | Far-right politician Marian Kotleba, as regional president of Banská Bystrica, provocatively hoists black flags at the municipal office on the anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising. |
| 2014 | On the 70th anniversary, Slovak historian Stanislav Mičev highlighted that the Slovak National Uprising remains a 'largely forgotten uprising' despite its significant scale. |
| 2013 | Lenka Šindelářová published her dissertation 'Finale der Vernichtung', focusing on Einsatzgruppe H and its activities in Slovakia during the late summer of 1944. |
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