31 August 1944 · 1 December 1944 The uprising that never reached here, and the front that didPovstanie, ktoré sem nedošlo, a front, ktorý áno

The Slovak National Uprising broke out on 29 August 1944 in central Slovakia. It was meant to be joined by the Eastern Slovak Army — two divisions, about 35,000 men holding the Carpathian passes, whose job was to open the mountains to the advancing Red Army. Instead the Germans disarmed them almost without a shot from 31 August; roughly 18,000 soldiers were taken prisoner and the passes stayed shut. That is why the war in the east was fought town by town by the Soviet army instead, and why Trebišov was not taken until 1 December 1944, by troops of the 4th Ukrainian Front.Slovenské národné povstanie vypuklo 29. augusta 1944 na strednom Slovensku. Mala sa k nemu pripojiť Východoslovenská armáda — dve divízie, asi 35 000 mužov, ktoré držali karpatské priesmyky a mali otvoriť hory postupujúcej Červenej armáde. Nemci ich namiesto toho od 31. augusta odzbrojili takmer bez výstrelu; do zajatia padlo približne 18 000 vojakov a priesmyky zostali zatvorené. Preto sa vojna na východe viedla mesto po meste sovietskou armádou a preto Trebišov oslobodili až 1. decembra 1944 vojská 4. ukrajinského frontu.