SLOVAK ARMY INTERNED
The Slovak Army, after lour weeks of fighting against the Russians, was suddenly recalled from the Russian front and temporarily interned by order of the German military authorities. It was divided into small units and distributed among specially prepared camps in the eastern part of Slovakia. The soldiers were forbidden to try to establish contact with their families. All these camps are severely guarded by tlic Gestapo. The Slovak authorities have issued a declaration that the army went tfcrouglli -Gallician villages where spotted fever is raging and that it is therefore necessary to keep the whole Slovak Army in quarantine for at least three weeks. The neighbouring villages found that neither doctors nor Red Cross personnel or equipment have been brought to these tamps. Throughout Slovakia it is being said that it is a political quarantine. The German authorities are afraid that the Slovak army which has fraternised with the Ukrainian population, might arouse in the Slovak people sympathy for the Russian and Ukrainian people and might organise sabotage.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 35, 30 March 1942, Page 6
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172SLOVAK ARMY INTERNED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 35, 30 March 1942, Page 6
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