In March 1939 Czechoslovakia was destroyed. Hitler occupied the Czech lands as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and Slovakia became a nominally independent state under German protection, led by the Catholic priest Jozef Tiso. Overnight the Morava at Holíč was a state border again, with German troops on the far bank and families split between two regimes. The Slovak National Uprising that broke out at Banská Bystrica on 29 August 1944 was fought in the mountains of central Slovakia and never reached this flat, open, occupied corner of the country. The Red Army came through Záhorie in April 1945, in the days after Bratislava fell on 4 April.V marci 1939 bolo Československo zničené. Hitler obsadil české krajiny ako Protektorát Čechy a Morava a Slovensko sa stalo formálne samostatným štátom pod nemeckou ochranou, na čele s katolíckym kňazom Jozefom Tisom. Morava pri Holíči sa zo dňa na deň znova stala štátnou hranicou, na druhom brehu stáli nemeckí vojaci a rodiny sa ocitli rozdelené medzi dva režimy. Slovenské národné povstanie, ktoré vypuklo 29. augusta 1944 v Banskej Bystrici, sa bojovalo v horách stredného Slovenska a do tohto plochého, otvoreného a obsadeného kúta krajiny nikdy nedošlo. Cez Záhorie prešla Červená armáda v apríli 1945, v dňoch po tom, čo 4. apríla padla Bratislava.
