1st Infantry Division

Departure Rapid Division in the field of railway transport of German Reichsbahn - Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR). Their locomotives were difficult to track Soviet and when struck their breakup crunched beneath the rail. Did they need to replace, modify and strengthen bridges and superstructure.

Central Station - Kiev. German engineering units repaired even in 1941 railway tracks for his military transports in record time.  

Kiev. OKW also used to prey Soviet locomotive parts according to the raw tracks, therefore it was necessary to pursue. Slovak officer left my winter coat inherited from the pre-war Czechoslovak army. The author's employer Danube shipping companies ČSPD n.p. in winter they used until 1993 in the service of its captains and helmsmen tugs, cargo ships and barges.  

Transhipment wagons of the German Reichsbahn - Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in Ukraine occupied Kiev in broad chassis 1520 mm according to Soviet standards. From November 16, 1941, Lieutenant Colonel GST Alojz Ballay Chief of Staff Rapid Division. He remained on the Eastern Front until March 28, 1942.

From 27.11.1941 Rapid Division took command of Colonel. GS. from 01.01.1942 General 2nd class Augustin Malár (1). Commanded by the heavy winter fighting in the area of Rostov-on-Don until April 1942, a period when it was a division of Classified Traffic automobile column PAK commander  lieutenant cavalry Aladár Ondrejkovič.  

Slovak military off-road vehicles Škoda 6ST6 L-picked by the Czechoslovak army inherited modern 105 mm cannon Mk. 35 also manufacturer Skoda a.s. in Ukraine into firing position. 

Škoda 105 mm cannon vz. 35 and terrain truck Škoda 6ST6-L of Artillery Regiment 11 of the Rapid Division. Pictured him his soldiers placed in palpost for indirect fire.

Chirugical team of Slovak 11th Field Hospital in full assembly when fully deployed during Operation Fighting Rapid Divisions.  

Off-road vehicles Henschel 33 D1 supplied 1st Infantry Division (RD) OKH. Their integral winch is best as belts for the rear axle. Assembled using a jack hammer. From 27 October 1942 was the RD deployed artillery section II/11 Artillery Regiment 11 with the arms of German origin. Battery 4/II, 5/II and 6/II with howitzers leFH.18 (lightweight Feldhaubitze 18) hauling trucks Henschel 33 D1.

Bactrian camel in the Caucasus with a wagon model. 34 (25, light military vehicle). Po skúsenostiach s ruským bahnom, v ktorom sa len s veľkými problémami presúvali aj terénne vozidlá, Slováci už na severnom Kaukaze zistili, že okrem pásových vozidiel sa v ňom najľahšie brodia ľahké vozy ťahané koňmi. V ruskej "rasputici" boli nepostrádateľné. 1. PD preto obdržala spolu 171 kár a 556 vozov ťahaných koňmi. Z vozov bolo 225 vz. 34, 199 trofejných sovietskych, 89 ľahkých vojenských, 39 vz. 25, 3 špeciálne nemecké a 1 ľahký  rebrinový. 46.

Henschel 33  D1 in 1st Infantry Division (RD) proved to unfair Crimea. From 27 October 1942 RD deployed these high quality and durable vehicles and brought them to the 11th Artillery Regiment After the war was the basis for Truck VEB IFA G5 NVA. 

Ambulance Styer 55 in Ukraine during rasputice. The roof of the vehicle was open in bad weather, threat to the Soviet Air Force crew. The officers therefore used 1st Infantry Division on the front convertibles. 

Armoured ferry Siebelfähre 43. By the beginning of March 1943 the Rapid Division received the order OKH to evacuate from Kuban the transport Luftwaffe aircraft Junkers Ju 52 on the Kerch Peninsula. Its trucks, 11 tanks 38 Praga Lt 38, and heavy machinery has taken OKH. The remaining 2,000 soldats sailed from Taman Bay on the Kerch Peninsula through the Kerch Strait armed *ferry Siebelfähre 43 and **Marinefährprahm MTF.  Automotive column PAK commander Lieut. cav.  Aladár Ondrejkovič left the car and was able to raft with them. 

Die Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) Rapid Division (1st ID) in the first line was sending far, following the partial amendment of its arsenal, however, could defend the Strait Perekop, Arbat and Selkov along with ports Genitschesk (Genicesk), Chorly and Sivash.

KFK Kriegsfischkutter. Since after Taganrog to Geničesk offshore patrol armed fishing cutters KFK Kriegsfischkutter built by the Germans in Kherson and in the port of Constanta and Varna. On the construction of the hull Kutru 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. Azov Sea to patrol the fishing vessel crew comprised of members of the 1st Infantry Division (RD).   

Stables in the village Voinka where it was deployed by the beginning of March 1943 HQ 1st ID. Commander 2nd Signal Battalion. Lt. colonel joint Karol Wildner was garrison commander in the town with the railway station. Every day and also watched the little things like dust on the horse harness in the stables. From 15.02.1943 he competed and lands Slovak Flight 13 from the airport Kerch. Already in 400 BC Athens imported grain from Crimea for which they paid for silver mined in Laurion.

Soldier of 2nd Connecting battalion from the Slovak 1st Infantry  Division in the repair of telephone and telegraph lines. 

Navigating terrain vehicle Praga AV with soldiers Slovak 1st Infantry Division (Rapid Division) at the airport Anapa in the Taman peninsula in 1943. From 13.03. to 17.03.1943 worked Slovak Flight 13 from Taman airport, operated by 01.04.1943 from Anapa airport.

The members of the 14th Light battery DPLP with the VKPL cannon vz. 36 caliber 2 cm Oerlikon and the terrain military truck Tatra T82.

Voinka. Since July 1943 Command Control holidaymakers 3 in Przemysl repeatedly reported 1st ID Headquarters that soldiers going to leave and returning from it roam the occupied territory of the USSR when used negligence of dispatch units, allowing them to travel documents do not specify the direction of the road.

During the deployment of the 1st Infantry Division in the Crimean Peninsula, its headquarters in Voinka published the Slovak newspaper "Slovak in Crimea".

The Theater - Variety where you go to have fun generals Axis forces in occupied city of Krasnodar in the North Caucasus in the years 1942-43.              

Summer in 1943 in the Crimea. Furthermore professional soldiers serving Slovak Air Force, flying personnel on the way to the airport Saki. During July, August and the first half of September 1943, the newcomers of 1st Infantry Division feel like on vacation.

Field Post. Not only part of the soldiers, but also the division's officers, wore non-prescriptive components of the Wehrmacht's summer uniform. Some have simplified and behaved only in shirts or in civilian coasters. However, it does not seem like a commanding under officer in the picture. 

 

From the Saki Airport near Simferopol, a 41st bomber squadron of Commander Captain Slovak Air Force Peter Gašparovič worked with four Heinkel He 111 H-16 bombers, with whom he carried out indicative flights over Russian villages.

The soldiers of Slovak Air Force at Saki Airport were in 1943 mostly sacked in non-governmental summer coffins from the German Luftwaffe.

During the spring and summer of 1943, the Rapid Division team and officers were replaced with exceptions due to missing garages and commanders of automotive columns. The veterans of the mobilization classes from 1938 to 1940 were taken to Slovakia, replaced by their newcomers who entered the military presence service in the autumn of 1942. After the replacement of the team, the Fast Division was renamed 1st Peace Division on 1st August 1943. Soldiers (newcomers) and officers (new graduates of the Military Academy) 1st ID went to Crimea after training before their departure to the Eastern Front at the Oremov Laz military camp, where training in regoments, battalions and companys and whole-school exercises lasting several days took place. Defense Warfare training continued in Crimea in "combat schools."

From 2 to 30 July, a training course for the organization of combat schools in 1st ID was held for Slovak officers at the German Combat School in Jevpatorija, and in 7th August in the port town of Chorly (Khorly) on the Black Sea coast set up a Slovak Divisional Combat School where units sent by experienced officers and non-commissioned officers as instructors. 

Commander of the Crimea General of Infantry Sigismund von Förster visited the Slovakian unit 17-19. August when he became acquainted with the level of training and equipment. When the 1st ID Commander ordered the members of the division to be fitted, sharpened and shaved, the unconfirmed soldiers wandered around the accommodation, even when they received summer linen uniforms. Yet the Crimean commander did not have an impressive impression of the division. 

The liaison officers HQ of Slovak 1st Infantry Division and part of the detachment settled in the Crimea in Simferopol. 

Palace of prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (Михаи́л Семёнович Воронцoв) of the Alupka in Crimea he recalled in the summer of 1943 cavalry lieutenant Aladár Ondrejkovič Napoleonic wars in which they fought in the years 1805-1810 as allies Rittmeister of hussars Johannes Ondrejkovits and First lieutenant of hussars Josephus Sandor de Slavnica with Russian hussar led by chief prince Vorontsov.

At the beginning of August 1943, actors and singers of the ensemble of the Slovak Front Theater SVŠ, concerted in Crimea in Simferopol, in the building of Pushkin Theater. He was hailed by the Slavs, the Romans, the Hungarians, the Italians, the Germans, the Russians and the Tatars.

Among other members of the ensemble of the Front Theater of SVŠ, his members were also cabaret artists. A stage for artists' performances outside of solid buildings were created with three PAK trucks with folded sidewalks parked close to each other.

A survey of one of the four leased Medium Bombers Aircraft Heinkel He 111 H-16 by ground personnel of the Slovak 41st Bomber Squadron his Commander Captain Peter Gašparovič at Saki Airport near Simferopol.

 Air Force Headquarters building in the field  

By the end of September 1943 within the framework of compensation for vehicles taken OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) it gave the Caucasus headquarters of Crimea in Simferopol 1st Infantry Division, inter alia, four radiotelegraphic vehicles Horch Kfz 17,

overall had a Slovak 1st Infantry Division (Rapid Division) of the Slovak army in September 1943 17 radio cars. 

Slovak soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division and their work, instructing, indisputably experienced and physically competent Russian women, on a sailing sailboat on the coast of the Crimean peninsula in the summer of 1943.

Yalta Spa in the Crimea in 1943.

Another stop for the performances of the Slovak Front Theater SVŠ in July and August 1943 Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine. 

Crimea. In August 1943 crashed commander 1st Infantry Division Gen. Stefan Jurech at the Saki airport with aircraft Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, but the hurt. State of the Division 1st September 1943 was 10,521 men (280 officers, 104 sergeants, 269 non-commissioned officers of the occupation, 9726 men and 142 workers). Division lacked trained commanders motorcade and garage masters, not only to complete the prescribed conditions,  but also for their exchange to leave.

At the end of August, the 1st Infantry Division (Rapid Division) had a 9th DPLP battery with four excellent flak 37 anti-aircraft cannons 88mm of German origin and two Oerlikon cannons 20mm made in Swiss.

At the end of August 1943 the 1st Infantry Division had a total of 10 919 rifles (9 936 Zbrojovka vz. 24, 977 Mosin-Nagant vz. 1910/30 and 6 Mauser 98) ; 

The 1st Infantry Division commanders lacked trained motorcade garage and masters for substitution. These professionals have been trained in Germany, but were not included in the division. The Germans therefore urged sending them into the field to make good equipment division does not deteriorate due to insufficient training of drivers. Head of the German development. mission in Slovakia, No. 1442/43, security, Bratislava September 2, 1943 Subject: Slovak Infantry Division.

The pilot of White Flight - Escadrille Albă (108 Escadrila of Transport Usor) Romanian Royal Air Force Stela Hutan before ambulance plane RWD-13S No. 2 with trophy Soviet rifle Mosin-Nagant 91/30 at the airport in Simferopol in the Crimea in 1943. The line up of the Romanian Royal Air Force after 1944 in the airspace of Czechoslovakia operated Escadrila de Transport Usor of air Basic Miskolc, Sliač (Tri Duby), Piestany, Trenčín and Brno-Medlánky. 

On 04.09.1943, conducted Minister of National Defence General Ferdinand Čatloš inspecton the 1st Infantry Division. For their transport used Heinkel He 111 H-10 S-81 with the crew of Air Force Lieutenant Ján Hergott, First sergeant Miroslav Zolvík and sergeant Ján Hatnančík. On September 5, the Minister of Defense conducted an inspection in Saki at 41st Squadron as well as in Slovak troops in Simferopol and Sevastopol. He also visited the spa town of Jalta. On September 6th, the Minister whit General Jurech visited Commander of the Crimea General Sigismund von Förster and his senior Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist in Simferopol with the opinion of the Slovak Government. 

During the Čatloš stay, Marshal Ewald von Kleist visited the 20th Infantry Regiment of Colonel GS. Stefan Tatarko, who organized a tactical exercise. Regiment with II./11 Artilery Section of Captain artillery Fleško made a sharp shooting of an expanded infantry battalion. The German military dignitary rated the exercise very well. Marshal Kleist verified whether the situation in the 1st ID was bad as the Slovak side had said, or whether German observers were right who did not regard it as such and pointed to the unreliability of part of its officers who served in the former Czechoslovak army. After the visit, Marshal probably assumed observer status. Slovak 1st ID was weak, supplemented and well armed compared to weakened German front divisions.   

Both the Headquarters of Crimea and Marshal Keitel neglected the position of the German liaison officer OKH Major Alfred Elger, who recommended for the Division to change the team at time intervals to "avoid the experience gained so far," the new additions should not exceed 25% of the individual wages. General Čatloš flew to Bratislava after the aircraft was repaired on September 8th.

On 12 September 1943, the Commander of the Division had sent to Slovakia 10 in the field of non-repairable motor vehicles from PAK on the basis of a protocol by her commanding officer lieutenant cavalry Aladár Ondrejkovič. There were 5 motorcycles (ČZ 175, Jawa 250, Jawa 350, Ogar 350 and DKW 350), 3 personal (Škoda Popular, Tatra T57 and Praga AV) and 2 trucks (Tatra T29 and Walter PN). 

On 15 September 1943 in Voinka took over the command of the division Colonel artilery Elemír Lendvay, who flew in from Bratislava with the plane Heinkel He 111 H-10 S-81 (W. Nr. 5468) accompanied by his wife. Heinkel He 111 H-10 S-81 even after the repair that day started with the former commander of the 1st Infantry Division General class II. Stefan Jurech in Bratislava.

The Crimea was Steyr (Austro-Daimler ADGR) in automobile park only 1st Infantry Division, as well as the Romanian Royal Army.

Sending non-road vehicles to Slovakia. Military Archives, f. RD, box.96, ref. 318-604, 20th Motorized Infantry Regiment, Commander of the First Division, No .: 100.34 /Secret 4th Division 1943, Operation Order 24, Part II, HQ 24th Sept. 1943, p.3.  

September 26, 1943 Kuban beachhead still held by German and Romanian troops. Selected soldiers of the slovak 1st Infantry Division 21st Infantry Regiment were selected to complement and with ferry transferred to the Kuban of the port Kerch.             

 

Soldiers of the Romanian Royal Army (Little Entente was the most reliable ally of the Czechoslovak army, the most reliable ally of the successor of the Slovak Army) with excellent heavy machine gun manufacturer Československá Zbrojovka Brno ZB-37 (heavy machine gun Mk. 37) Kuban beachhead. In the year 1943 Romanian army had the Cuban bridgehead and the Crimea with eight divisions (10th and 19th Infantry, 6th and 9th equestrian, and first to fourth roller /8/ .                                                                      

Command of the Wehrmacht from Crimea in Simferopol received by the end of September 1st Infantry Division (Rapid Division) 6 cars Volkswagen VW KdF 82 Kübelwagen. Five allocate 11th Artillery Regiment.

On 01.10.1943 began to move the main forces of the Slovak 1st Infantry Division in defensive position intercepting the German army in the area Askanija Nova - Dmitrievka between Melitopol and Kakhovka.

Slovak 20th Infantry regiment kept their positions in the Crimea at Karkinitsk bay (Kаркинитский залив).

Combined road and rail bridge over the Germans was the Kerch Strait built, but was destroyed shortly before completion in October 1943. On 05.10.1943 all units 19th Infantry Division of the Romanian Royal Army who fought with soldiers chosen slovak 1st Infantry Division retreated from the Taman Peninsula in the Crimea. Thus ended the Caucasus "adventure" Romanian divisions in 1943, which cost 9,668 casualties (1,598 dead, 7,264 injured and 806 missing) from February to October.   

From 27.10.1943 commanded the 1st Infantry Division Lt. colonel artillery Emil Perko. Soldier Josef Ondrejkovič *1921 †30.10.1943 Neštich for village Shevchenko.

In the battles on the Dnieper river with the Soviet army was lost tow steamer Váh floating company Slovak Dunajplavba SPD account comp of performance 280HP and a capacity of 500 tons.

From November 15, 1943, he was commander of the 1st Division Division (former Fast Division) Colonel GS. Karol Peknik, under his command, the majority of the division has retreated to Romania. Associate District Governor in Bratislava Dr. Aladár I. Ondrejkovič from the Cement Board Stupava Colonel GS. Karol Peknik was the commander of the 1st Infantry Division, which included First lieutenant reserve Aladár II. Ondrejkovič) (7). 

In the first phase of operations Operations " 60000 " - in 1944, between 14 and 27 April 1944, the Crimea was evacuated by sea Romanian Royal Navy (Marina Regală Română) and Kriegsmarine vessels to the port of Constanta on the Black Sea with 73,058 people, including 723 soldiers of the Slovak 1st Infantry Division (Rapid Division).

Sanitary train. The wounded and sick soldiers of Slovak Rapid Division (1st Infantry Division) were bringing into the divisional field hospital where they master it (for example in 1941 was its commander Major healthy. M.D. Pavel Mráz) after steady state sent the red cross marked in the German hospital train background.   

Military hospitals - Wien XIX. Slovak wounded and sick soldiers were transported from the front Lazaret trains to Vienna. MNO their assumption of ambulances Corps automobile park and affixed in Bratislava in Military hospital Kramáre and 1st Military hospital Patroness at the intersection of the Red Bridge (commander mjr MUDr. Ladislav Dohnányi). Subsequently an after sending to the military hospital in Piestany, to Smrekovica to Military and log cabins in the High Tatras.

On November 24, 1943 by a decision of the military prosecutor was Major. GST. Ján Stanek arrested former commander of the 1st Infantry Division General II class Štefan Jurech and placed in a 1st Military hospital in Bratislava. As the defense minister, General Ist class Ferdinand  Čatloš despite hostility General Jurech against him did not intend to cause the trial. The official investigation into the General Jurech a lieutenant. pion. Gustáv Donoval led Major. Just. Tibor Hajdu ,, for crime plotted conspiracy to defection. "The investigation lasted several weeks and was interviewed 87 military personnel. Hajdu received detailed instructions from the head of the justice department as NGOs have conducted an investigation and the main prosecution witness Colonel infantry Mikuláš Markus as to be terminated is detrimental to the reputation of the Slovak army. The officers who were in the matter of detailed instructions and then summoned to the witness statement was also First lieutenant. res. Aladár II. Ondrejkovič. Unofficial investigations by he himself defense minister Ferdinand Čatloš who also personally instructed summoned officers. Minister personally heard the Colonel. artilery Ján Kallo who insisted explained.                            

In Crimea remained isolated parts of the 1st Infantry Division, about 900 men of 20th Infantry Regiment until its evacuation in April 1944. On 6 June 1944 1st Infantry Division under the command (former commander of the Military Academy in Bratislava, at the time when she graduated First lieutenant cars. Aladár Ondrejkovič) colonel infantry František Krakovský progressively transferred to Romania in August 1944 after a military coup led by Romanian King Michael I. and trapped Marshal Ion Antonescu was moved to Transylvania.

Maritime raft ferries (Marinefährprahm) F MFP 335. In May 1944 were along the Black Sea of Crimea evacuated last Slovak soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division in the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta. These were members of the 14th light battery DPLP VKPL Mk.36 cannon caliber Oerlikon 2 cm (at the Romanian port of Constanta was subsequently involved in anti-aircraft defense) and selected members of a 21st Motorized Infantry Regiment who fought the German-Romanian troops Cuban beachhead. The evacuation of the Romanian-German convoy attacked Soviet Navy and the Soviet Air Force. Evacuations attended in addition to Romanian and German naval and Danube military and commercial vessels and Hungarian river-sea merchant ships. Among them was

the river-sea freight motor ship and the shipping company DTRT (Hungarian Danube-seagoing and Company Limited) m/s Kassa, commanded by Capt. András Davidházy. Evacuation of the then Danube cruises from ports in the Crimea and back Although prior findings did not participate trailing river tugs and cargo, or motor tankers of the Slovak Dunajplavba holding company (could be done in rare unspecified cases), but to a limited extent only the towing barges or self-propelled tank vessels supply, transport and evacuation voyage from the river mouth Danube to the Black Sea port of Odessa (April 10, 1944 was liberated troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front) participated.

About 02 hours. May 10, 1944 morning anchor 2 transport ex Hungarian motor cargo ships Magyar Vitéz and Magyar Tengerész - M/S Totila (2733 GRT) and M/S Teja (2760 GRT) two sea miles before the Crimea, north of outcropping Chersones that they will not compromise the Soviet artillery fire. The soldiers were on a ship transporting PRAM and engineer boats, M/S Teja took aboard 5,000 men and M/S Totila 4,000 men. Ships were without air cover. At 5:45 pm hit M/S Totila 3 bombs. Burning ship carried away waves of the sea and sank two hours. He managed to rescue 600 men. The same fate should M/S Teja. Soviet torpedo planes it heavily damaged, 15 hour sank. We managed to rescue 400 men. Overall, killing 8,000 men.

The Tatra Military Home in Tatranska Polianka in 1944. It was designed for military professionals and their families. First lieutenant in reserve Aladár II. Ondrejkovič, a descendant of Trencin County Judge Stephanus Baron Sandor de Szlavnicza, attended the compulsory recondition stay after returning from the Eastern Front. His fiancée, Elizabeth Ličková, stirred a stir among those officers when he came to see him from Trencin. Multiple pp. Their wives knew her from Trenčín, they knew that she came from a mother from a Jewish family Stiglitz, she was in her villa with tennis courts next to the M. R. Stefanik. Disagreement with their relationship is openly inappropriate. First lieutenent Ondrejkovič did not dare to express even higher officers. A significant part of them were regimists, but in conflict with his father's brother District Governor of Bratislava Dr. Aladár II. Ondrejkovič, president of the Supreme Court JUDr. Martin Mičura (members of the state canceled mičuras Czechoslovak People's Party), Archbishop ThDr. Karol Kmeťko and his other family were afraid to be afraid.

Something broke in them, especially when they were informed that even those members of his family in 1943 not only publicly declare their civic and political attitudes, but also the representatives of the institutions they represent and act and decide. A special category was the relaxing officers with wives and families, i. Sons, siblings and siblings of HSLS post-1939 officials who were MA graduates, courses and internships in Germany avoiding deployment on the Eastern Front as well as field service.

First lieutenant in Reserve Aladar Ondrejkovič in the High Tatras recognized, his sister Magdaléna was in Strbské Pleso, and his husband Karol Suchanek, a famous iceberg athlete, worked there. He was a friend of his. Ondrejkovič, before he met his wife. The Tatra community probably figured it out, after their marriage in the spring of 1944, the mistress Júlia Ličková born Stiglitz came to Tatier and Elizabeth's mother. Karol Suchanek was the last to criticize his relationship. Your family's help with the newly married couple Ondrejkovič District Director in Kezmarok Dr. Alex Luštek and his brother-in-law Public notary in Spišská Nová Ves Dr. Ladislav Štefánik from the most serious family in Slovakia. 

Ambulance Škoda 256B. Staff at the command of the Ministry of National Defence was the spring of 1944 First leutnant Aladár Ondrejkovič in Vienna in military ambulances Corps automobiles park in order to locate, identify, and assume Slovak wounded soldiers, including their medical records. The task was entrusted with regard to foreign language skills and knowledge of military health issues. In October 1939 he was commander of the v. hospital. 

During issuing documents to transport wounded soldiers to the Slovak Bratislava, the First lieutenant Aladar Ondrejkovič went to go to the city. In his memoirs coffee houses in Vienna except black coffee with chicory sweetened sachrínom have nothing. Not only the people of Vienna as well as personnel military hospital was unknown his uniform. They considered him an officer during the Spanish Blue Division. He noted the low number of vehicles on the streets and new landmarks of Vienna which have been high and bulky reinforced concrete anti-aircraft towers Flakturm.

Walls anti-aircraft towers Flakturm VIII had 2.5 meters. Construction of anti-aircraft towers required a concentration quantity workforce and consumed large amounts of building material. Germany should be sufficient despite the state of war, did not need to use spare capacity or only a few kilometers distant modern cement (Stupava) in Slovakia, which had a German shareholding entities. 

Trams urban transport replaced at Vienna for lack of fuel and transport of goods, and any material goods vehicles.    

(1) General Augustin Malár in July 1944 has taken over as commander of the Field army (ie. The East Slovak Army) in Prešov, he plans to anti-German armed campaign connected the minister General Ferdinand Čatloš.

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 21st Motorized Infantry Regiment), Lieutenant Colonel Kulich, First lieutenant Schmidt, First lieutenant, Lieutenant Kurtha and Lt. colonel artillery František Klučík (former Chief of Artillery in the Rapid Division).

Colonel GS. Karol Peknik was appointed Chief of Defense, since September 4, 1944 Chief of Operations Division of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Headquarters in Slovakia. November 1, 1944 was near St Ondrej an Hron captured by the 14th Einsatzkommando and the same day when shot attempted shot (7). 

Commander of the 4th Romanian Army, General corps Nicolae Dascalescu had at the beginning of the fighting in the former Czechoslovakia provided 116,432 men, of which 39,540 were killed. 4. His army consisted of units: 2nd Army Corps under the command of Division General Costin Ionascu after defeating the White Carpathians attacked in the direction Záhorovice- Bojkovice- Zádveřice- Slušovice- Hulin.

6th Army Corps under Division General Gheorghe Stavrescu advanced to Moravia in the direction of Ilava - Horná Lídeč.

3rd Infantry Division 6,155 men under the command of Brigadier General Ion Tanasescu fought in the area of ​​Uherský Brod and Nivnice, then Lhotka - Kelniky - Bohuslavice u Zlína - Zlín - Louka - Mysločovice.

6th Infantry Division of 5,512 men under the command of Brigadier General Ion Dimulescu advanced through Lopeník - Vyškovec - Bystřice pod Lopeníkem - Luhačovice - Horní Lhotu - Zádveřice - Bílovice - Jarošov.

The 9th Infantry Division of 6,643 men under the command of Brigadier General Ion Stanculescu fought in the direction of Strání-Korytná-Popovice-Karlovice-Sazovice-Hulín.

The 11th Infantry Division of 6,902 men under the command of Brigadier General Constantine Badescu advanced in the direction Nemšová - Vlárský Pass - Bylnice - Vysoké Pole.

The 18th pedestrian division of 5,274 men under the command of Gheorghe Cosma had the marching axis Púchov - Horní Lideč - Lidečko.

The 21st Infantry Division of 4,751 men under Brigadier General Marina Ceausu fought in the direction of Kykula-Vyškovec-Bojkovice-Rudimov-Loučka-Slopné-Vizovice.

1st Horse Racing Division with 5,558 men under the command of Colonel Constantine Talpese advanced in the direction of Dolná Súča - Pitín - Slavičín - Vlachovice - Újezd ​​u Valašských Klobouk.

8th Equestrian Division Division 4,914 men under the command of Brigadier General Ion Eftimiu advanced in the direction of Banov - southwest of Šumice - Luhačovice - Provodov - Želechovice. 

The 2nd Ukrainian Front included two Romanian armies, the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Air Force. 

Damaged tank Renault R 35 from the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment of the Romanian army at the railway station in Znojmo, who took part in the Prague operation. He progressed through Znojmo, Telč up to the Tábor arrived in Prague two tanks.

 

Concentration Camp Flossenburg in Bavaria in which they were executed in early 1945, direct commanders of First lieutenanant Res. Aladar Ondrejkovič and former commanders of the Rapid Division, General 2nd class Augustin Malar 2nd class, General 2nd class Štefan Jurech and former Chief of Staff of the Rapid Division Brigadier General Ján Golian.

Notes: * Modular construction Siebel Fähre were transported by land and assembled at the destination. ** From May 1941 (Bulgarian National Koralowag shipyard, Naval Arsenal) was built for the German Navy 93 MFP Marinefährprahme Varna in Bulgaria with many components and equipment supplied from Germany ; For service on the Black Sea border disputes German Navy and KFK (Kriegsfischkutter) 27 Ships in Varna (Bulgaria), 3 boats in Constanta (Romania) 12 in Kherson (Ukraine) ; Major GS. Ján Golian head of the third department. Staff of the 1st Infantry Division (Fast Division) 1941-1943 ; 41st Pioneer Battalion ; Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6/U2 W.Nr. 760 381, W-0 †21, Lt. Pál Bélaváry,101/3. Vadászszázad, Veszprém, June 1944. Collection László Daniél via Punka 2002, p. 56. †10.12.1944  ; 

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