Ladislav Nižňanský

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Ladislav Nižňanský (born October 24, 1917 near Čadca , Austria-Hungary ; † December 23, 2011 in Munich ) was a Slovak-German participant in World War II and a secret agent. During the Slovak National Uprising he was the commander of a Slovak company in the Edelweiß anti- partisan group .

Life

During the Slovak national uprising against the Jozef Tiso government, anti- partisan units were formed with the support of the German Wehrmacht . One of them was under the command of Major Erwein Graf von Thun und Hohenstein standing Abwehrgruppe 218 "Edelweiss". From November 1944 Nižňanský was commander of the Slovak unit of the group "Edelweiss" and was involved in several missions against partisans .

After the war ended, he was charged in a Slovak court and acquitted for lack of evidence. During this time he is said to have signed up as an employee of the Czechoslovak secret service Státní bezpečnost (StB). In 1948 he moved to Austria and worked for the American Central Intelligence Agency . Nižňanský worked from February 1, 1954 to February 1983 in the Czechoslovak editorial office of the US station Radio Free Europe and lived in Munich from 1957.

After new evidence had been presented by the Soviet side, Nižňanský was tried again in 1962 before the Czechoslovak district court Banská Bystrica and sentenced to death in absentia. In October 2006, the Banská Bystrica District Court in Slovakia commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment.

In 1996 Nižňanský received German citizenship . He later lived in an apartment in Munich's Ostpark . In January 2004 Nižňanský was arrested in Munich and charged again with 164 murder.

Nižňanský was accused of participating in three massacres in Slovakia in 1945. 146 people were murdered in Ostrý Grúň and Kľak on January 21, 1945, including 48 women and 48 children. He is also said to have ordered the shooting of 18 Jewish civilians in the Kšinná community in February 1945 .

The court did not consider it proven that Nižňanský was jointly responsible for three massacres in Slovakia in 1945. After 15 months of trial, he was acquitted in December 2005 for proven innocence .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://history.hnonline.sk/2-svetova-vojna/1048838-niznanskeho-prenasledovala-temna-minulost-az-do-smrti-trestu-za-zlociny-ale-unikol
  2. ↑ Zomrel Slovák, well ktorého never sme hrdi. Ladislav Nižňanský zomrel ešte 23rd decembra minulého roku. In: TVnoviny.sk. March 16, 2012, archived from the original on March 17, 2012 ; Retrieved July 16, 2018 (Slovak).
  3. ↑ Štát sa vzdal vojnového zločinca Ladislava Nižňanského ( Slovak ) SME. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ Zločin a trest ( Slovak ) Český rozhlas. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
  5. ^ The judge Manfred Götzl on the pages of Das Erste
  6. ↑ Tim Assmann: Nazi Trial: acquittal for Niznansky. Perhaps the last Nazi war criminals trial ended with an acquittal: The Munich jury court did not consider it proven that Ladislav Niznansky was involved in massacres in early 1945. December 19, 2005, accessed July 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Nižňanský, Ladislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak-German participant in World War II and secret service agent
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH near Čadca , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2011
Place of death Munich