20th Infantry Regiment (motorized)

Off-road military trucks Praga RV and light howitzer Skoda Mk. 30 caliber 100 mm. On the right loader with tractor Škoda MTH 

Departure Units of 20th Infantry Regiment in the field on 28.06.1941. (145) Reported II/20th Infantry battalion commander dated 26 august 1941 proves unpopular Rapid Brigade Commander Colonel gen.st. Rudolf Pilfousek not only in the Slovak Army. Battalion commander Major infantry Ján Š. reported that Colonel Wehrmacht was concerned person Colonel Rudolf Pilfousek and therefore did trouble with dispensing gasoline vehicles PAK Lieutenant of cavalry Aladár Ondrejkovič.   

 

Military officer license Slovakian army whose owner was a First lieutenant. cars. in advance Aladár II Ondrejkovič.

Prerequisite for becoming an officer cadre Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic was the passing of the Military Academy and service in the queue after a specified period. It was he included in his study of the length of the Military Academy as a mandatory practice. Until then kept only as a backup officer in active service next. 

Training units of 20th Infantry Regiment before deploying in a field on the queue in conjunction with Assigned Cannons against Assault Carriage (KPUV) Mk 37P (Škoda A4). 

 

Gold Badge of Section OAP army of competitors, of which he was a First lieutenant cars in reserve Aladár II Ondrejkovič member. He competed in equestrian disciplines. OAP holder of this badge was also his future brother in law Mgr. Fritz Lederer. He competed for Army Sports Club in table tennis.

 

Even as military attache in Berlin, Lt. colonel infantry Alojz Androvič 4 May 1941, the Eastern Railway Station (Keleti pályaudvar), Budapest (by Spišiak envoy at his request) to inform the military ataché USSR in Berlin Major General Vasily Tupikov Wehrmacht on preparations for the coming attack against his country. Chief of Staff of the Southwest Front from 29.6.1941 20.9.1941 General Tupikov fell when trying to escape from encirclement at Kiev Front commander with Général Mikhail Kirponos. 

By June 1941 military ataché in Berlin, Chief of Staff Southwest Front Mayor-General Vasily Tupikov, Divisional Commissar Evgeniy Pavlovich Rykov and Southwest Front commander Colonel-General Mikhail Kirponos. Germans beginning in May 1941 organized by the foreign military attachés in Berlin visit the Greek war theater and battlefield. They traveled in a special train carriage with a stop in Budapest, where he spoke along Slovak ataché Lt. colonel Androvič and Soviet ataché General Tupikov which together made ​​the train. Alojz Androvič introduced his companion Soviet military ataché to Slovak ambassador in Budapest Dr. Ján Spišiak that he was waiting at the station.

Štábny automobil veliteľa Motorizovaného pešieho pluku 20 od Rýchlej divízie, jedno zo 136 áut Praga AV ktoré Slovenská armáda zdedila po Československej armáde.                 

Truck of the II/6th bicycle squadron in front of the burning building troops NKVD headquarters in Kiev on 20.09.1941. On that day left Kiev last unit 4th Division NKVD, mined city center, administrative and historical buildings destroyed all the bridges across the Dnieper and the power supply.

Explosion zerstört Pečerskaja Lavra. Kiev 1941.

Kyiv University in the fall of 1941 served as a hostel for Axis forces after the occupation of the capital of Ukraine. They lodged there soldats of PAK then commander Lieutenant cavalry Aladár II Ondrejkovič.

Pictured in transit across the Dnieper military passenger car Czechoslovakian Tatra T 57.

Soviet prisoners of war, soldiers of Georgian nationality in the village of Novaya Karubi, which on 14 - 15 October 1941 captured Slovak soldiers II/20th Infantry Battalion. Prisoners have long greatcoats established in 1926 and field cap model, 1935.

Designation of the Staff of the Commander of the Regiment of Slovak Rapid Division of coats of arms was introduced on the Eastern Front according to the Wehrmacht branding. Pictured on the car marking Praga AV of the Commander 11th Artillery Regiment.              

Carriage of vehicles Praga RV included in the year 1941 in PAK of 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment injured across the Dnieper below the dam wall of hydro DneproGes. Left explosions damaged dam wall through which power flows freely flow of the river Dnieper. Rapid Division officers, including the commander of the PAK cavalry lieutenant Aladár II Ondrejkovic participated in reconnaissance of damage.

Commander 20th Infantry regiment of the Rapid Division from 20 July 1941 to 20 December 1941 was Colonel infantry Ondrej Zverin. 

Fast Division was defending on the river Mius from autumn 1941 until spring 1942. Field gendarme armed with a popular Soviet machine gun Špagin PPS-41 and featured Czechoslovak binoculars Optikotechna vz. 9/13.

Tests of sports gymnastics, which lieutenant cavalry in reserve Aladar Ondrejkovič graduated from his studies at the Military Academy during a holiday from the Eastern Front and a brief stay in the background or formality.                          

Trucks Praga RN and Stab cars Škoda Popular of Commander of the PAK (trafic automobile column) Lieutenant cavalry Aladár Ondrejkovič front of the hotel Ukraine in Kiev the year 1942. Commander of the 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment from 01.12.1941 to 29.04.1942 was Lt. colonel infantry Alojz Králik. 

Examining patient to Military Doctors of 11th Field Hospital from Rapid Division. Slovak military doctors treated not only Slovak soldiers and officers and soldiers and officers of their allies but also treated Soviet military prisoners and civilians. In December 1941 - July 1942 in the Battle of the Rapid Division on the Mius River, the doctor of the I/20 th Infantry Battalion was Lieutenant health MD. Ondrej Sitar. 

Soldier of the II/20 Motorized Infantry Battalion in Rostov on Don 25th July 1942 in the ruins of the industrial plant. 

Словаки на улице Ростова, на какой именно уже вряд ли станет известно. Герои такие, пушечное мясо, позже практически все легли, но их в общем-то никто не звал...Июль 1942. Slovak soldiers on the streets of Rostov. 

Traffic motorcade of Fast Division 25/04/1942. In the foreground Opel Olympia. Right back Praga AV.

A small Russian girl is waiting patiently when her chefs of a II./20th Motorized infantry battalion will have lunch.  

Soviet artillery tractor T-20 Komsomolets on duty 11th Artillery Regiment of the Rapid Division. 

Soldiers of the Infantry Battalion  of 20th Motorized Intantry Regiment in the North Caucasus during the transfer.

The soldiers of the 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment are advancing through an abandoned settlement in the mountains of the North Caucasus.           

Soldier II/20th Infantry Battalion of 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment in the North Caucasus during the summer campaign of the Slovak Rapid Division. Commander of the II/20th motorized Infantry Battalion major infantry Eugen Budinsky fell on August 4, 1942 near Kropotkin, Krasnodar region. From 29.04.1942 to 01.09.1942 the commander of the 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment was Lt. colonel infantry František Stojan.

Mountain cannon Škoda 7,5 cm with service in rocky hilly terrain. 20th Mountain cannon battery with excellent mountain cannons vz. 15 replaced the 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment in part as well as field cannons and anti-tank cannons of larger caliber.

Infantry of Romanian Royal Army Corps in Nalchik on the North Caucasus in October 1942nd.

In autumn rains, most horses have proven themselves, unlike motor vehicles. Slovak rider on horseback next to the well-dressed wooden cover of 20th Infantry Regiment on the defense line in the Caucasus Mountains.  831. Soldat Jan Ondrejkovič (1919, not shown) † October 16, 1942, the Caucasus Suchaja Cice. 

Field gendarme of the 20th Motorised Infantry Regiment in winter black fur coat inherited from the Czechoslovak armed units SOS in the North Caucasus. Gendarme shooting from Soviet trophy quality self-loading rifles Tokarev SVK-40. Campaign in the years 1942-43. The same black winter coats have in your inventory Danube tugs, barges and tank vessels of the ČSPD National Corporation  for their use in the service of captain and helmsman in the winter.

Field gendarme of Fast division in North Caucasus in winter camouflage gear inherited from the pre-Munich Republic as favorites, Slovak soldiers sought Soviet machine gun Špagin PPS-41 and binoculars Optikotechna vz. 9/13. Both weapons Tokarev SVT-40 and submachine gun Špagin PPS-41 was sought and popularity not only used by members of the Fast Division, but also the Wehrmacht. In July 1942 it had placed in service and the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion in the USSR, its commander was Colonel Ludvik Svoboda, later Army General, the President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

On February 2, 1943, a Soviet battalion then attacked a company of the 20th Infantry Regiment west of the village of Edepsukaja and drove it back, losing 14 prisoners.   

Armed raft MFP F 401 right unloaded military equipment, left sunken the barge of the river Danube. 

In February 1943, the 20th Infantry Regiment also received an order from the OKH to evacuate Slavyanskaya airport to Cuban by transporting airplanes the Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 52 to the Kerch Peninsula. His hard technique was taken over by OKH.

The Siebel artillery raft in the shallow Azov Sea proved to dive low. Was used to evacuate the most part, Slovak Rapid Division through the Strait of Kerch on the Crimean peninsula in early March 1943. PRAM Siebel was the German Navy completizet in the Romanian port of Constanta. For the German navy was built in Varna 93 PRAM MFP Marinefährprahme with many components imported from Germany. For service on the Black Sea is built for the German Navy and 27 vessels KFK (Kriegsfischkutter), Varna (Bulgarian National Koralowag shipyard, Naval Arsenal), 3 boats Constanta and 12 in Kherson (Ukraine).

The position of the headquarters of the 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment was in the small port town Geničesk near the Azov Sea. 

Sergeant 20th Infantry Regiment at patrol the Azov Sea is equipped with twice as much ammunition as a rule. 09. Since mid-September 1942 to April 1943 he commanded the 20th Infantry regiment Lt. Colonel infantry Mikuláš Markus.

The Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) 1st Infantry Division Crimea (Rapid Division) in the first line while not send weapons after completing its allocated task to defend the Strait of Perekop, Arbat and Selkie along with ports Genitschesk (Genicesk), Chorly and Sivash. Since Taganrog to Genicesk offshore patrol armed fishing cutters KFK Kriegsfischkutter built by the Germans in Kherson, in Constanta and Varna. On the construction of the hull cutter been used hard and soft wood and mild steel (ribs). Had a 18-member crew (composed mostly of members of the Croatian maritime Legion), speed 9 knots, 220 HP diesel, displacement 110 t., Length 24 m, width 6.4 m, draft of 2.7 meters. FLAK weaponry 3.7 cm, flak 2x2cm, S - Gäret (asdic), water bombs.

Bachčisaraj (Бахчисарай) seat Crimean Khan admired the soldiers, especially officers Slovak 20th Infantry Regiment in the summer of 1943, many who came from the family of teachers, if they themselves were in civilian occupations. In his poem he wrote fountains poet, novelist and dramatist Alexander Pushkin. He processed in Poem story of unfulfilled love Girej Khan, who left the memory of slain nice to build a fountain of tears.      

Crimea in the year Jahr 1943. Were left open shops of souvenirs Lieutenant cavalry reserve Aladár de Ondrejkovič here bought two vases of shells and cartridge and musle. Even today they have postponed his family. Among his things were even khaki shorts and cork helmet supplied 1st Infantry Division Headquarters OKH of Crimea (38).

Soldier of II/20th Infantry Battalion from 20th Infantry Regiment in patrolling between their individual positions on the seashore.

Commander of the armed patrol fishing boat of the Slovak Army on the Azov Sea.

The small port and spa town of Genitschesk (Geničesk) on the shores of the Azov Sea today controls the road to the Arabat Arow (Arabatskaya strelka) from Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula.  

Slovak, former Czechoslovak quality cannons against attacking chariots (KPÚV) Mk.37P (Skoda A4), operated by 5 men to defend the coast port Genitschesk (Genicesk) in summer 1943.

Slovak soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division (Rapid Division) and magical Sea, only ?

The Azov sea next small port town Genitschesk (Genicesk). From 01.04.1943 to 01.08.1943 was commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment Major infantry Štefan Želinský. From July 1941 to August 1943, the name of the Regiment "Matus" was covered. 20th MIR zanikol 01.08.1943.

Units Subordinated from 20th Motorizes Infantry Regiment:

From 25.07.1941 to 01.08.1943 I/20th Motorised Infantry Battalion

From 25.07.1941 to 01.08.1943 II/20th Motorised Infantry Battalion

From 25.07.1941 to 01.08.1943 20th Anti-Armour Company

From 25.07.1941 to 01.08.1943 20th Mountain Cannon Battery 

At the end of August 1943, the 20th Infantry Regiment had 2,631 men (of which 54 officers, 12 sergeants and 41 noncommissioned officers). Dátum vzniku 01.08.1943. 

Slovak soldiers in the Crimea had training in addition to various competitions. The events presented and the quality of training. 12th September, for example, in Jansennofe held horse race involving 54 members of the German, Romanian and Slovakian army. Slovak contestants was only 7, but get up to 11 prices (including 1 first and 2 second). GPs also attended Lieuetenant cav. in reserve Aladár  Ondrejkovič with known outcome. Slovak riders attracted the admiration of Allied riders and the guests of German and Romanian army. Commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment was from 10.08.1943 to 12.09.1943 Colonel General Staff Stefan Tatarko.

Sending non-road vehicles to Slovakia. VHA, f. RD, p. 96, ref. 318-604, 20th mot. inf. Regiment, Comm. 1st Infantry Division, No .: 100.34 / Sec. 4th Division 1943, Operation Order 24, Part II, HQ. 24 sept. 1943, p.3.

The Kuban bridgehead Romanian troops 19th Infantry Division with selected members of the 21st Infantry Regiment Slovakia 1st Infantry Division defended their positions to retreat to Crimea 01.10.1943.

On October 5, 1943. The main forces began to shift 1st Infantry Division in defensive position intercepting the German army in space Askanija Nova - Dmitrievka between Melitopol and Kakhovka. Slovak 20th Infantry regiment kept their positions in the Crimea at Karkinitsk bay (Kаркинитский залив). 

Barracss of the Motorized infantry regiment in the Nitra. Of the 12.09.1943 to the 01.01.1944 was Commander of the 20th Infantry regiment Lt. colonel infantry Karol Heidler.

In Crimea remained isolated parts of Slovakia 1st Infantry Division, about 900 men of 20th Infantry Regiment until its evacuation in April 1944. From June 6, 1944, the 1st Infantry Division commander Colonel infantry František Krakovský retreated to Romania after a military coup King Michael I. in August 1944 in Transylvania.

Investigation of patients, members of the Rapid Division at the Matliare Military Institute in the High Tatras after their return from the Eastern Front in 1943-1944.

Early July 1944 First lieutenant cavalry  in reserve Aladár II. Ondrejkovič Sandor de Szlavnicza  was in Vienna with military ambulances and drivers to take difficult 1st Infantery division wounded soldiers whose military hospital in Vienna ride from the Eastern Front German Lazaret train. Austrians were surprised by hisuniform, considered him an officer in the Spanish Blue division. While waiting for the formality went to see the city. According to his memorieswere in Vienna empty shops, cafés and restaurants was administered only coffee with chicory from saccharine as sweetener. 

On the night of 16.10.1944 crashed in the village Gemerská Poloma soviet transport aircraft Lisunov Li 2 transported persons belonging to the second Czechoslovak Airborne Brigade. From the wreckage was rescued Lazar Lobovic (Lebovic?) and Pavel Ondrejkovič, soldiers of the Czechoslovak Army Corps. At dawn they reached the nurseries, where they are working laborers arrived in Huta, where they provided assistance. Meanwhile, residents from morning October 17 1944 looking for the crash site. In its place, it killed 16 paratroopers and airmen. Three seriously wounded Alexander Novak, Joseph Štroks and Francis Polaček, along with treatment in Huta taken to the rebel military hospital in the Dobšiná. 

From July 25, 1941 until March 26, 1945, the dislocation of the Slovak 20th Motorized infantry regiment was East European battlefield. Od 01.06.1944 do 26.03.1945 nadriadená jednotka PP 20 bola 1. technická divízia. Pluk zanikol 26.03.1945. 

Comments: 20th Infantry Regiment, Higher Comand: 25.07.1941-01.08.1943 Rapid Division ;  (38) VHA, f. MNO (sec.) i. No. 80, K .: No. 8134 / Secret 3. Separate. 1943 Summary weapons at a faster Division, Brief munitions and Intendant management. (145) war diary of Colonel Jozef Turanec 06.20 67-September 19, 1941; 107 VHA Bratislava, f. MNO Confidential carton 1944 454 No. 2135/1944 Doven 1st Infantry Regiment, I/1st Battalion, 4/1. Company commander Lt.  Karol Ondrejkovič ; The Slovak Army took over 18.03.1939 after the Czechoslovak army 9189 field telescopes vz. 9/13 ; Chicago Daily Tribune 6 January 1943. NALCHIK, KEY CITY OF CAUCASUS, IS RETAKEN BY REDS ; 09 Commander PP 20 from 09.1942 to 04.1943 Nicholas Markus ; Commander of the Military Academy in Bratislava Infantry Lieutenant Colonel František Krakovský was commander of First lieutenant automob. Aladár Ondrejkovič during his studies at AVA ;

According to General JUDr. Samuel Korbel on October 12, 1944 were the next Ľubietová shoted Colonel GS Viliam Kanák (other sources heavily injured on September 29, 1944 died in the building of the Land Force Command in Banská Bystrica), Infantry Colonel Ondrej Zverin (former Commander of the 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment), Lieutenant Colonel Kulich, First lieutenant Schmidt, First lieutenant, Lieutenant Kurtha and Lt. colonel artillery František Klučík. 

Source: Dr. Ján Spišiak ;  Lt. colonel pion. Ľudovít Hrušovský ; Lt. colonel tank Aladár de Ondrejkovič ; general Karol Schwarz ; colonel Pavel Gajdoš ; Ján Letovanec 8. apríl 1968 ;