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action in which 5,000 alleged partisans, including 200 Jews, were shot. Slovak soldiers participated in numerous pogroms and frequently robbed Jews during the first days and weeks of the occupation in the summer of 1941. However, there was no equivalent of the
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also) and shortly thereafter given over to direct German command, the Slovaks lacking the command infrastructure to exercise effective operational control. This unit fought with the 17th Army through July 1941, including at the
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At the beginning of August 1941, the Slovak Mobile Command was dissolved and instead two infantry divisions were formed from the Slovak Expeditionary Army Group. The Slovak 2nd Division was a
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In June 1944, the remnant of the division, no longer considered fit for combat due to low morale, was disarmed and the personnel assigned to construction and
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established on 14 March 1939. It possessed a small army of its own, largely made up of parts inherited from the old
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Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945
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The Slovak Expeditionary Army Group of about 45,000 men entered the Soviet Union shortly after the
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work, a fate which had already befallen the Slovak 2nd Division earlier for the same reason.
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Members of the Slovak Expeditionary Army pictured in a propaganda photograph in October 1941.
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Joining Hitler's Crusade: European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941
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was a front-line unit which fought in the campaigns of 1941 and 1942, reaching the
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The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers
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RychlĂ­k, Jan (2018). "Slovakia". In Stahel, David (ed.).
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Military units and formations of the Soviet–German War
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1944
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Members of the Slovak Expeditionary Army pictured in a propaganda photograph in October 1941.
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Battle of Uman
Battle of Lypovec
Battle of Rostov (1941)
Operation Bamberg
Battle of the Caucasus
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