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by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2008)Jan Golian (January 26, 1906, Dombovar, Hungary ? 1945, Flossenburg concentration camp, Germany) was a Slovak Brigadier General who became famous as one of the main organizers and the commander of the insurrectionist 1st Czechoslovak Army in Slovakia during the Slovak National Uprising against the Nazis. He was the supreme military leader of the uprising from April 27, 1944 (while the uprising was still in preparation) until the arrival of Division General Rudolf Viest on October 7, 1944. Afterwards, General Jan Golian served as Viest's deputy. Despite fierce fighting, the outnumbered and surrounded insurrectionist army could not resist well-equipped German forces. When Viest and Golian ordered their remaining units to start a guerrilla war on October 27, 1944, they did not know that it would be the last order they issued. Both Generals were captured by German special forces on November 3, 1944 in Pohronsky Bukovec. In violation of international law, they were tortured and executed in a German concentration camp (1945).
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Political representationCzechoslovak government-in-exile
Military units and formations
Czechoslovak legions
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1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade
Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion
First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion
1st Czechoslovak Army Corps
Resistance members
Adolf Opalka
Jan Kubi?
Jozef Gab?ik
Josef Ma?in
Jan Opletal
Alois Elia?
Franti?ek Moravec
Karel Pavlik
Josef Balaban
Vaclav Moravek
Abraham Pressburger
Josef Matou?ek
Jaroslav ?ihak
Otakar Jaro?
Jan Golian
Rudolf Pernicky
Bed?ich Reicin
Richard Tesa?ik
Rudolf Viest
Ludvik Svoboda
Marie Ljalkova
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Out Distance
Three Kings
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Operation Anthropoid
Royal Air Force
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Franti?ek Pe?ina
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Syria-Lebanon Campaign
Siege of Tobruk
Battle of Sokolovo
Battle of Kiev
Battle of the Dukla Pass
Slovak National Uprising
Siege of Dunkirk
Prague Uprising
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NameGolian, Jan
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Date of birthJanuary 26, 1906
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Date of death1945
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