The Slovak National Uprising (SNP) of 1944 represents one of the greatest armed anti-fascist events taking place during the years of the World War II. Slovak political representatives of the left-wing communist and civic democratic illegal anti-fascist movement, with a military headquarters founded at the Headquarters of Land Forces of the Slovak Army in Banská Bystrica in spring 1944, had participated on its preparation since December 1943. An objective of the uprising was to military react against Nazi Germany and its Slovak cooperators at a right moment, change the Slovakia's position of a vassal state of the Third Reich with help...