Ferdinand Čatloš

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Ferdinand Čatloš (1895-1972) was a Slovak military officer and politician. Throughout his short career in the administration of the Slovak Republic he held the post of the Minister of Defence. He was also the commanding officer of the Field Army Bernolak during the Invasion of Poland. During 1944, he was one of the main leaders of the Slovak National Uprising against Nazi Germany, but it was brutally put down and he was arrested. Following the World War II he was briefly imprisoned, set free in 1948 he spent the rest of his life working as an ordinary clerk in Martin, Slovakia.