The author returns to the question of what function did the lieutenant colonel of the General Staff, Ferdinand Čatloš, hold during the mobilisation in the fall of 1938, before becoming the military representative at the Slovak autonomous government. There are two different opinions. According to the first one, he was the Chief of Staff of the Border Area 37, defending the state border fortification, and according to the second one, he was the Chief of Staff of the 8th Division created during mobilisation as a new one. The author has been dealing with the question of Ferdinand Čatloš’ allocation since 1997. Originally he believed that he was the Chief of Staff of the Border Area 37. However later on he discovered documents, proving that Čatloš was in fact the Chief of Staff of the 8th Division. These documents include mainly the personal files of officers of the Border Area 37 and the 8th division.
The aim of the contribution is the analysis of the critical text of the Minister of National Defence of the war-era Slovak Republic and chief military commander, Ferdinand Čatloš. In the text, he provides an analysis of Milo Urban’s prose, Who Sows the Wind (Kto seje vietor) (1964), which describes the World War 2 period. The study includes an annex which containing a part of Čatloš’ paper which has not been scientifically reflected as yet. In her comparative analysis, the author of the study examined interpretation of two historical events by Čatloš and Urban: the Hungarian-Slovak armed conflict in 1939 and the so called Lichardus coup along with Čatloš’ resignation in 1941.Value of the study consists in the enrichment of Čatloš’ biography in terms of the memoir-like nature of his elaborate, clarification of the context of Urban’s artistic work and completion of his biography, since the “disputation” with Čatloš is a part of his correspondence and to evaluate the informative value for historical research on a sample of Čatloš’ commemorative texts.
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