Kríza pohonných hmôt a automobilovej mobility v období druhej svetovej vojny na Slovensku
The crisis of fuel and automobile mobility during the Second World War in Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: The Slovak state under the tutelage of Nazi Germany was a grateful source of raw materials, especially fuel for war needs. Slovak refineries initially supplied both the domestic market and foreign „allies“ with petroleum products. Gradually, problems began to appear in the supply of gasoline, which motorists received only on a rationing basis. The government first restricted motor mobility through various legislation, and later completely banned it. At the same time, it sought various types of alternative drives for individual cars and vigorously promoted them in practice. The fixed network of gas stations built in the interwar Czechoslovakia was gradually reduced, due to the lack of petroleum products that it could offer, but also to the will of enemy capital. The fuel crisis in question reduced the mobility not only of the civilian population, but especially of the army. The entire management and distribution of fuels was transferred to a single central body, the Supreme Supply Office, which since 1943 has regulated all automobile transport in Slovakia.

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