28 January 1945 The front passes, and the cable car is wreckedFront prejde a lanovka je na kusy

The front reached the foot of the Tatras in the winter of 1944 and 1945, and Poprad was taken on 28 January 1945. The settlements on the slope came through standing — there was no battle among the hotels — but the war left the mountains' machinery in pieces, and the cable car to Lomnický štít, only five years old and the pride of the republic, did not carry passengers again until 1949. The Hungarian Carpathian Society, which had marked the paths and trained the guides since 1873, was dissolved by decree in 1945 as a German-Hungarian organisation. The Tatras came out of the war with their buildings, and without the institutions that had made them.Front dorazil pod Tatry v zime 1944 a 1945 a Poprad padol 28. januára 1945. Osady na úbočí prežili stojace — medzi hotelmi sa nebojovalo —, ale vojna nechala horské stroje v troskách a lanovka na Lomnický štít, vtedy iba päťročná a chlúba republiky, viezla cestujúcich znova až od roku 1949. Uhorský karpatský spolok, ktorý od roku 1873 značil chodníky a školil vodcov, v roku 1945 rozpustili nariadením ako nemecko-maďarskú organizáciu. Tatry vyšli z vojny s budovami — a bez inštitúcií, ktoré ich vytvorili.