Knižná galaxia: Hana Kubátová – Kde líšky dávajú dobrú noc

In the first years of its existence, the Slovak state in a world marked by war devastation appeared to be an oasis of peace and abundance. Building sidewalks and sewerage, construction work, cheerful parades and full tribunes celebrating God and nation. However, the idyllic image will only stand up if we forget about thousands of murdered Jews, on the Roma pushed on the edges of towns and villages, the Czechs, Hungarians and Ruthenians degraded to the inhabitants of the second category. If we overlook the arizations, violence and, above all, a systematic effort to turn the multicultural country into a Slovak Christian monolith according to the example of Hitler's Germany. genocide. It shows that the Holocaust was not only a "imported" tragedy that Nazi Germany was involved in Slovakia, but the process in which the Slovaks themselves - political and religious elites, local officials and ordinary citizens - participated. This book disrupts the comfortable myth of Slovakia as a victim of the Nazi dictation and asks how a country that was presented as a Christian and national, becoming an active participant of the Holocaust. It was allowed by daily manifestations of loyalty, compromises and greed, even in the most remote corners of the country where foxes give a good night. Historical analysis of events overlaps with warning of the power of nationalist ideologies crossing the boundaries-geographical and time.