Poznámky k problematike vojnových zajatcov v súvislosti s výmenou obyvateľstva medzi Československom a Mašdarskom
Notes to the Issue of War Prisoners in Context of Exchange of Population between Czechoslovakia and Hungary

Author(s): Štefan Šutaj, Barbara Kacerová
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: war prisoners;exchange of population;Czechoslovak-Hungarian Mixed Commission
Summary/Abstract: The question of war prisoners on the negotiations about population exchange, while in Agreement of Czechoclovak-Hungarian population exchange it was not mentioned. The interest of the Czechoslovak authorities was focused mainly on Slovaks who, as members of the Hungarian army, were in Soviet prison camps. The Czechoslovak-Hungarian Mixed Commission was one of the realization instrument of population exchange and it made decisions about its mechanism realization. The Mixed Commission for population exchange and it made decisions about its mechanism realization. The Mixed Commission for population exchange was dealing with the war prisoners issues in proposal for a decision of Mixed Commission from October 3, 1947. In the proposal was specified conditions for registration and resettlement war prisoners and their family members. The rise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1948 created conditions for changes in Czechoslovak-Hungarian relations, what was reflected also in the solution of Hungarian war prisoner's issue. The Czechoslovak-Hungarian Mixed Commission accepted in October 1948 decision no. 56 about resettlement of war prisoners, associating and exclusion and backward resettlement, in which was setting out the conditions for resettlement of war prisoners and their family members. Thanks to accepting the decision there were created formal conditions for the repatriation of war prisoners from USSR in the context of population exchange.

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