Okresný ľúdový súd v Námestove

Okresný ľúdový súd v Námestove 

District People´s Court in Námestovo 

Okresný ľúdový súd v Námestove 

District People´s Court in Námestovo 

0,25 linear meters, paper documents. 

Fonds of the District People´s Court in Námestovo 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 their collaboration with Nazi security bodies in the suppression of the Slovak national uprising and during the occupation of Slovakia in 1944-1945, in particular to the violent acts and catching the Jews. Some of the perpetrators were judged for denunciation of Jews and partisans who were in the hiding. 

Material is arranged numerically.