Okresný ľudový súd v Liptovskom Mikuláši

Okresný ľudový súd v Liptovskom Mikuláši 

District People´s Court in Liptovský Mikuláš 

Okresný ľudový súd v Liptovskom Mikuláši 

District People´s Court in Liptovský Mikuláš 

0,625 linear meters, paper documents. 

Fonds of the District People´s Court in Liptovský Mikuláš is fragmentary, however, it contains several relevant case files pertaining the activities and crimes committed during the period of the Hlinka´s Slovak People´s Party (HSĽS) regime in 1938-1945, including the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. It provides with documentation of the trials against some local party dignitaries and members (HSĽS and also Deutsche Partei) who were accused of propagation of the fascism and the ruling regime. Several cases refer to the activities of the Special Units of the Hlinka Guard (POHG) and also Special units of the Hlinka Youth (POHM) and their collaboration with Nazi security bodies during the occupation of Slovakia in 1944-1945, in particular to the violent acts and catching the Jews. Several local perpetrators were accused of the assistance during the deportations of Jews from Slovakia, participation in other anti-Jewish activities, house searches in the Jewish and also Czech households.