English Translation

- 5 - 40 The internal opposition of the two leadership groups was very clear throughout the observation period in the behaviour of the organs opposing the prisoners:The right hand of that state-like entity did not want to know what the left was doing. Already in the first days, the advertising and benevolent behaviour of the commissioners of Narodný Výbor, as well as the Slovak power, clearly stood out from the much rougher and more tangible way in which the guerrillas dealt with or wished to proceed with the detainees, the one promised beneficent treatment or even bald freedom, the other put the detained on the wall in every new atrocity and were apparently prevented only by the intervention of the forces of the armed forces to realize their intentions. In the same way, gendarmes who had to guard the concentration camp in Slovenska Lubča, as well as professional judges who had endured so-called large-scale interrogations, were inspired by democratic goodwill, as it were, while at least in the first period the guerrilla groups and agents of the GPU staff who intervened in this operation were the bearers of the usual terror measures. There was a gradual shift in cask behaviour: while in the first few weeks the heaviness was more on the side of the wildly fermenting communist group, in the times when the state system seemed to stabilize with the slow advance of the German troops, a significant shift in the weight of the leadership on the part of the ČSR, represented by the Národná Rada, occurred.It led up to cleansing tendencies within the guerrilla units and to - 6 -