September – 27 October 1944 Two months as the capital of a free countryDva mesiace hlavným mestom slobodnej krajiny

For two months Banská Bystrica governed the large part of central Slovakia the insurgents held. The Slovak National Council sat here as the government of the liberated territory; the insurgent army — the 1st Czechoslovak Army in Slovakia, some 60,000 soldiers after mobilisation, with partisan brigades alongside it — was commanded from here; newspapers were printed here; and Imrich Karvaš, the governor of the national bank, had three billion crowns brought into the town so that the rising could pay its way. General Rudolf Viest flew in on 7 October to take over the command from Golian. No Allied army broke through in time, the German divisions closed in from every side, and on 27 October 1944 they took the town. On the night of 27–28 October Viest ordered what was left of the army into the mountains to fight on as partisans; on 3 November he and Golian were captured at Pohronský Bukovec, and both died in German captivity.Dva mesiace spravovala Banská Bystrica veľkú časť stredného Slovenska, ktorú povstalci držali. Sídlila tu Slovenská národná rada ako vláda oslobodeného územia; odtiaľto sa velilo povstaleckej armáde — 1. československej armáde na Slovensku, po mobilizácii asi 60 000 vojakom, popri ktorých bojovali partizánske brigády; tu sa tlačili noviny a guvernér národnej banky Imrich Karvaš dal do mesta previezť tri miliardy korún, aby povstanie malo z čoho žiť. 7. októbra priletel generál Rudolf Viest, aby prevzal velenie od Goliana. Nijaká spojenecká armáda sa však včas neprebila, nemecké divízie sa zovreli zo všetkých strán a 27. októbra 1944 mesto obsadili. V noci z 27. na 28. októbra vydal Viest rozkaz, aby zvyšok armády odišiel do hôr a bojoval ďalej partizánsky; 3. novembra ho spolu s Golianom zajali v Pohronskom Bukovci a obaja zahynuli v nemeckom zajatí.