GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 757, sig. 110-5/47

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194 Copy of Blitzfernschrift F5-No.12 419 Pressburg Einsatzgruppe H - PS-Nr. 772 16.10.44 2325. An distributor! Betr.: Slovakia. Vorg.: Running. Larger combing action in the Waagtal and in Banovce area accompanied by success. On railway line Banovze - Chynorany a 10 kg shearer mine was developed. At Makov - in the Kysuka valley 8 load parachutes were found. In the time of 1.9. - 16.10. a total of 7 051 people were arrested. Events in Hungary are the center of the general interest. Positive forces hoped to fill the areas and solutions of Hungary Slovak-Hungarian questions in the sense of the Slovaks. Minister M a c h intends to introduce the day paper "Magyar Hirlop", numerus clausus for Hungarian high school students. The Slovak propaganda leader Tido G a s - P a r has given the press an official statement by the Slovak government on the events in Hungary, in which Horthy's behaviour is pointed out in sharp words. It would have been especially ungurn that both territorially and politically, thanks to the benevolence of the Great German Reiebe, many successes and also to its enlargement. Slovakia would not be able to be diverted by anything from the path of the escaped struggle on the side of Germany. For several days, an illegal magazine called "Udernik" (The Stormer) has been published by positive forces of the Hlinka youth, in which the government has been accused of recklessness and inactivity and called for radical measures. This newspaper uses s: h local press. The former Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria will not be sent as planned to Coburg son +/.