Roma under Fascism, and as a Nazi Satellite: Hlinka Guards

Banska Bistrica, Slovakia. Tanks from the Slovak National Uprising. In Zoli - Gypsy fought as Partisans in the hills, and stories of the Nazi reprisals. See Slovakia Road Ways, Banska Bistrica tanks.
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Hlinka guards: had been a pro-Nazi militia operating near the Tatra mountains area, see ://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/sk%5Ehg.html. See the flags and emblems there.

This is the area near Zilina, south of the high Tatra mountains, showing a ruin of a castle up there. It is rugged country.

There is a photograph of Hlinka guards at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, see it at ://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005466&MediaId=1358. Slovakia had been a satellite state, not "occupied" as had been the Czech areas, I understand. Prague was "occupied." Andrej Hlinka, 1864-1938, was a Catholic priest who founded the Hlinka's Slovak People's Party - read about his issues about his being the father of fascism in Slovakia, and the namesake for the Hlinka guards, and views about his currently being elevated to - well, you read it at ://slovakia.humanists.net/a_profiles.htm. Quieter summary at ://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=182.

The Hlinka guards had forced Zoli's family and extended family (she was away with her grandfather), caravans and horses out onto the ice of a lake, then started fires at the shore so the ice weakened and all were drowned. Zoli 15-17.