Okresný ľudový súd v Bánovciach nad Bebravou

Printed inventory in the Researchers´ Room of the archive. Following Second World War trials with Nazi criminals and their collaborators were organized on the territory of restored Czechoslovakia just like in many other European countries of those days. Three-tier retributive justice system was established in the Slovak part of post-war Czechoslovakia by the Regulation of the Slovak National Council no. 33/1945 on the Punishment of Fascist Criminals, Occupants, Traitors and Collaborators and on the Establishment of People’s Judiciary. District People’s Courts (Okresný ľudový súd), which were established at district seats with the jurisdiction over the territory of specific districts represented the second tier within the system of the retributive judiciary in Slovakia. Within their jurisdiction fall all criminal offenses stipulated by the Regulation No. 33/1945 with the exception of cases under the exclusive jurisdiction of the National Court (which tried only the leading officials of former Slovak Republic (1939-1945)). A 5-member Senates of District People´s Courts, consisting of a Senate president and four members decided cases. The Senate president and his deputy had to be professional judges. Archival documents can be reproduced with the permission of the archive and in accordance with archive´s Research Rules (Bádateľský poriadok) as well as other internal regulations of the Ministry of Interior. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., U.S.A. The fonds contains various case files pertaining the activities and crimes of the Hlinka´s Slovak Poeple´s Party (HSĽS) regime during the period 1938-1945. It contains the case files of the local party dignitaries and members as well as files of several members of the Special Units of the Hlinka Guard (POHG) and a member the file of the member of Deutsche Partei. Several files pertain to the denunciation of Jews as well as non-Jews. There is also a file pertaining to the collaboration with German security bodies after the occupation of Slovakia in 1944-1945 Accessible.