„Die Katze muss weg!“: odchod českého obyvateľstva zo Slovenska 1938
“Die Katze muss weg!”: The Retreat of the Czech Population from Slovakia in 1938

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the historical-legal analysis of the Czech population’s position in Slovakia during the interwar period with regard to retreat of the Czech employees and their families from the territory of Slovakia. The article judges historical reasons for the big influx of Czechs to Slovakia, then deals with gradually worsening relations between Czechs and Slovaks and the legislation for mass departure of the Czech population from the Slovak State. The biggest amount of the Czech immigrants occurred right after establishing of Czechoslovakia. Initial enthusiasm was replaced by disappointment of the young Slovak generation which could not find any positions in the state administration or another skilled work (occupied by the Czechs). These facts and the changed situation in Europe were a great ground for the fascist propaganda in the 1930s which led the Slovak society to declaring their own state and fights against everybody who harmed the Slovak nation – including Czechs.

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