1914 – 1918 Prisoners of war on the Rajecká roadZajatci na Rajeckej ceste

When war broke out in July 1914 the parties and trade unions stopped work and the war economy pressed on every class in town. A camp for prisoners of war was built where the barracks on the Rajecká cesta stand today, and the prisoners were put to work in some of the Žilina factories. The barracks themselves held a temporary military hospital taking wounded men off the trains from the front — the railway that had made the town rich was now delivering its casualties. A large military cemetery was laid out where the flyover by the town cemetery runs now. In June 1918 the people of Žilina joined a strike across the whole of Hungary demanding an end to the war.Keď v júli 1914 vypukla vojna, činnosť strán a odborov ustala a vojnové hospodárstvo doľahlo na všetky vrstvy. Tam, kde dnes stoja kasárne na Rajeckej ceste, vznikol zajatecký tábor a zajatci pracovali aj v niektorých žilinských závodoch. V samotných kasárňach zriadili dočasnú vojenskú nemocnicu, kam privážali ranených priamo z frontových vlakov — železnica, ktorá mesto obohatila, mu teraz vozila obete. Veľký vojenský cintorín padlých vznikol tam, kde je dnes estakáda pri mestskom cintoríne. V júni 1918 sa Žilinčania pripojili k celouhorskému štrajku za ukončenie vojny.