Talk:Slovak Republic (1939–1945)

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[edit] The fate of Slovak Holocaust Victims.

Most of the Slovak Jews, deported to Poland in 1942 were in fact murdered in the Operation Reinhard death camps Belzec and Sobibór; smaller groups were deported also to Auschwitz and its subsidiary camps. Most of the victims gassed immediately upon arrival perished however in the Action Reinhard death camps; there were whole transports, usualy of 1.000 victims per train, that were doomed to certain death, because in Belzec and Sobibór, no selections of labor-able and labor-unfit people were conducted, as is known from Auschwitz later; instead, the whole transports were gassed at once immediately upon arrival, sometimes with an exception of a few dozens of young, strong men who were temporary preserved from death to be forced to conduct the horrible tasks of a jewish Sonderkommando in the death camp. It is worth mention, that the Slovak State Government actually paid the Third Reich 100, or 500 (I'm not sure about the exact sum, it was either a 100 or 500,--) Reichsmark for every jewish person, deported from Slovak territory into Nazi-Occupied territories in this early stage of deportations, which is a particularly awful aspect of the Slovak Holocaust. I'm not aware of any other Government anywhere, that would pay the Third Reich for disposing of their own jewish people. Later, in summer and autumn 1944, most of the further deportees were transferred to Auschwitz-Complex camps and selectioned into those doomed to be gassed immediately and those forced to labor in the concentration camps.--84.163.127.40 10:16, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

The Slovak government paid the Nazis for the VOCATIONAL retraining of Jewish deportees (assumed to be resettled in a reservation around Lublin), not for extermination. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.70.144.72 (talk) 02:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)