Draft:Gardista

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Gardista was a political weekly, later the daily of the Hlinka Guard (HG), published before and during the Second World War in Slovakia

Front page of Gardista magazine.

With the 21st issue of the first year, Gardista also became the official body of the Hlinka Traffic Guard (HDG). It was published in Bratislava and Žilina weekly, later daily except Monday. The first issue was published on January 18, 1939, the last after more than five years on April 5, 1945. The first year's edition had an average of 16 pages, later 8. Karol Murgaš's book Tretia riša - a book about the creation of the Great German Empire, work and life - was published in Gardisto as a continuation its leader Adolf Hitler. At the end of August 1944 and the beginning of September, the newspaper was not published because its printer was destroyed during the fighting in the Slovak National Uprising.

Editor's

• Karol Murgaš
• Ladislav Hohoš
• Rudo Strieženec
• František Galan
• Otomar Kubala
• Milo Urban

Focuses

all though in addition to political and organizational rumors of HG, they have also added:

• educational and religious contributions
• articles from cultural life (theatre, literature, education)
• contributions from economic life
• raised social issues
• brought native materials

In the first year, Gardista focused more on the organizational, personnel and ideological reinforcement of the Hlinka Guard and its components, then, both news and publicism and commentary, was open to social and political life in the Slovak State (defense education, spiritual life, economy, jubilee of politicians and nations, culture, sport, etc.) also to world politics. They emphasized the building of the consolidation of Slovak statehood and its national-Christian-social content in the spirit of the ideology of national socialism and an alliance with Nazi Germany. Gardista published reflections and comments and repressed all the speeches of the leading officials of the Hlinka Guard at first, especially Charles Sidor, then Alexander Macha, published contributions from various lower officials and celebrated patriotic and militaristic poets by more important and insignificant authors. They supported German military expansion and Slovak military participation in, and welcomed Anti-Jewish into its legislation and its implementation (deportations), with sympathy on events in allied countries, especially in Croatia and Italy, Gardista attacked anti-fascist powers during the Slovak National Uprising. And after its suppression, They encouraged regimeist udaism and repression. The nationalists, the anti-Semitic and German-speaking focus retained Gardista's existence and his longtime whisper M. Urban was in 1948 sentenced to "public reprimand".

Periodicity

The political weekly, later a daily, was published from January 18, 1939.

• 1939 - year I. - 47 numbers - 16 pages on average
• 1940 - year II. - 90 no. - after 8 s., after 28 s.
• 1941 - year III. - 297 no. - after 8 s.
• 1942 - year IV. - 297 no. - after 8 s.
• 1943 - year V. - 299 no. - after 8 s.
• 1944 - year VI. - 289 no. - after 8 s.
• 1945 - year VII. - 75 no. - after 4 s. - published until 5. 4. 1945)

Newspaper in electronic form

• Gardista - available in the UKB Digital Library

External links

• Tiso and Hitler, this is what newspaper covers looked like after the creation of the Slovak State – article in Denník N

Source

• slovenská, Matica (1969). Bibliography of periodicals in Slovakia in 1939—1944.