The S.O.E. and the Failure of the Slovak National Uprising: Martin D. Brown Tells the Little-Known Story of How British and American Soldiers Disappeared in Slovakia's Tatra Mountains during the Remarkable Episode of Slovakia's National Uprising agai

ON JANUARY 21ST, 1945, a lone long-range fighter aircraft was dispatched from an Allied airfield in southern Italy, with orders to fly north eastwards over Occupied Europe towards the mountains of central Slovakia. Its mission was to reestablish contact with a party of British and American soldiers in the region who had not been heard from since before Christmas. These men were drawn from the ranks of two secret organisations, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and had taken part in the Slovak National Uprising that had begun in August 1944.

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However, Stalin and the STAVKA failed to timely deliver the needed support to the insurgent army and even blocked Western offers of military aid as they did only a few weeks earlier in the Warsaw uprising.

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Just wondering about these statements. Were both sides working on their own here? I´d consider that more than a little weird.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

Yes,thanx, but I was looking for clues for the Allied sides making negotiations of helping the uprising together. Sorry if my wording was not enough clear. Both sides sending agents/partisans without knowing each other´s movements would be dangerous at least.

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Sorry. Its not that surprising though. Both of the "Allies" were obviously working at odds with eachother throughout the war. Trying to get the upper hand Post-war.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.