The Slovak National Uprising (SNU) is one of the major events that has not only gone down in Slovak history but also in the history of the European resistance against Nazism. The news, reporting the first clashes between the Žilina garrison and German units, reached Banská Bystrica on 29th August 1944. On the evening of the same day, Lieutenant Colonel J. Golian gave the order to begin the Slovak National Uprising, using the secret code: “Start the eviction!” During the early days, some of the garrisons, especially those in Western Slovakia, were disarmed and thus were unable to join...