Czechoslovakia Under Nazi Rule
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Czechoslovakia Under Nazi Rule
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Czech Slovak Polish Ukraine Hungarian German
Czechoslovakia in 1930
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Slovakia as a German Puppet State
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The Slovak Republic (1939-45)
• Forced alliance with Germany
• Hitler did not want country to align with Hungary in 1939
• “Offered” independence in return for protection from Hungary and Poland
• Josef Tiso agreed, fearing division
• Became a puppet regime
• Hitler wanted as base for attacks on Poland
• Slovak army fought Poland and Hungary in 1939
• Adopted aspects of Nazism
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The Slovak Republic (1939-45)
• Hinkla’s Slovak People’s Party
• Jewish Code passed in 1941
• Jews must wear yellow armbands, banned from intermarriage and many jobs
• Agreed to deport Jews as opposed to providing Slovak workers for the war effort
• Slovaks paid to have Jews deported
• Deportations halted for awhile in 1942 after Vatican and certain leaders protested
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The Slovak Republic (1939-45)
• Officials said they were not aware they were being sent to gas chambers
• 1944: Deportations resumed, Slovakia occupied, Uprising suppressed
• 105 ,000 Slovak Jews died during the war
• 77% of pre-war population