Język Polski
English
„Dziennik wojenny 1. pułku piechoty” armii słowackiej (23 sierpnia – 6 września 1939 r.)
Igor Baka
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9870-1232
Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny w Bratysławie
Dawid Golik
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3560-7331
Oddział Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej w Krakowie, Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, No. 13 (2020), pages: 275–296
Publication date: 2023-04-05
https://doi.org/10.48261/PAIPN201314
PDF (Język Polski)
Abstract
The involvement of the Slovak army in the aggression against Poland in September 1939 has become the subject of research over the last twenty years by many historians from both Poland and Slovakia. However, not all of the issues surrounding these events have yet been explained, but the key to interpreting many of them lies in documents found in the archives. One of them is the “War diary of the 1st Infantry Regiment” of the Slovak Army. On the eve of the outbreak of war, it was subordinated to the 1st Infantry Division, which together with the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions, and the commonly named “Rapid Group” formed the Slovak Field Army. While the majority of the Slovak units were assigned to secure the rear flank of the German troops about to enter Poland and to protect the Slovak-Polish border, the 1st Infantry Division was ordered to enter the territory of the Second Republic of Poland and to actively support the German offensive on Podhale [Polish highlands] and the Beskid mountains. The fact that the unit was used outside the borders of the Slovak Republic is indisputable, but the circumstances, time and the decision-making procedure to engage it in offensive actions aroused controversy. Some light is shed on these events by the entries in the recovered diary.
