German Zone of Protection in Slovakia

The German - Slovak protection zone statute was an international treaty between the German Reich and the Slovak Republic on the establishment of a so-called protection zone in western Slovakia, in which the German Wehrmacht should exercise the sole military sovereignty.

The contract was signed in August 1939 in the Slovak capital Bratislava. The contract provided for the establishment of German military installations within the protection zone. Originally, the content of the protection zone statute should be part of the completed on March 23, German - Slovak treaty protection. In the German - Slovak treaty of protection, however, the chapter German - Slovak protection zone statute ( scope of protection zone, military technical issues etc. ) and German - Slovak military industrial contract ( WWV ) were spared. It was agreed to settle both chapters in detail in later negotiated individual contracts. The German - Slovak protection zone statute represents one of these individual contracts represents the negotiations for the protection zone statute delayed in time especially because of different ideas about the Slovak portion of the on the ground of Slovakia at the time of the dissolution of the Czechoslovak state stored armament is the former Czechoslovak armed forces. Furthermore, the scope of the new Slovak armed forces has been the subject of strong controversy. Only through a clear yielding Adolf Hitler against the Slovak Prime Minister Jozef Tiso the contract was concluded in August 1939 on this issue.

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As a result of the agreement were, inter alia, several German garrisons and a large military training area ( Truppenübungsplatz Small Carpathians, today Truppenübungsplatz Zahorie in the pine forest at Malacky ) set up in the western Slovakian protection zone.