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148 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tel. 93.21.10 44 1.) To RSHA III i.e. v.lj- Stubaf. u.Amtsrdt Pommerening, o.V.i.A.-Berlin Betr.:Dissolution of the National Committee and Slovak National Council of the Insurgents in Banska - Bystrica Vorz.: Without Hiesiger A.-man of the news connection " K 1 " reports the following: The plans for the preparation and execution of the uprising in the Slo wakei are vomhem. Minister of Defence a t 1 o § a well-known captain of the sloven. army with lem Befehi before handing himself to the Italian front to the slow unit deployed there, to cross over to the Anglo-Americans and from these further to London to B e n e s c h. The transmission of the insurgency plans by the described way should also be done. Mr B e n e s e h had, after taking note of the preparations already made, prompted the insurrection to start immediately. He had thus opposed Moscow, which had consistently defended the demand that the uprising in Slovakia should not break free until Krakow was in the possession of the Red Army, so that it could bring the necessary help to the insurgents. He said that, with the help of the Red Army, Hoskau had bound up with this demand to immediately have the necessary influence in the Slo-wakei and to adapt the conditions planned in this area to those in Romania and Bulgaria.Benesh had recognized this Soviet goal and had immediately triggered the uprising with Czechoslovak forces, by eliminating the