Spolek vlastníků majetku na Slovensku a bývalé Podkarpatské Rusi po druhé světové válce
The Association of Property Owners in Slovakia and former Carpathian Ruthenia after World War II

Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on the after-war activity of an association trying to help people that fled or were expulsed by Hungarian and Slovakian Nazi allies from the territory of Carpathian Ruthenia and Slovakia and to compensate their property losses. The Association was active already at the beginning of the war; however, due to further escalation of the conflict, its activity was suppressed. The liberation and the Third Republic era brought about feverish efforts for restitution of property in Slovakia and for compensation for property destroyed or damaged by Hungarian occupation in Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia. Besides that, it was attempted to reflect also private interests of Czechoslovak citizens during negotiations between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union pertaining to cession of Carpathian Ruthenia to the latter. The era after February 1948 is characteristic of efforts of authorities to quietly eliminate the association with politically sensitive activities as well as of relentless passive resistance of legally educated association representatives, frequently state administration officials themselves, that were trying to represent their interests during various trials, mostly before Slovakian courts of law, even after the formal dissolution of the association.

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