Zpráva pplk. Antonína Zemana – Barovského o událostech na Podkarpatské Rusi v březnu 1939
Report of Lieut. Col. Antonín Zeman (Barovský) on events in Carpathian Ruthenia in March 1939

Summary/Abstract: This is an annotated edition of a report by then Lieut. Col. Antonín Zeman (1891– 1956), codename Barovský, on events in Carpathian Ruthenia in March 1939. One of the first descriptions of those events, the report was prepared in 1942 for the Ministry of National Defence of the Czechoslovak Government in Exile on the direct orders of President Edvard Beneš. Zeman/Barovský became commander of the Khust battalion of the State Defence Guard (SOS) in 1936. From 1938 its units fought against Polish and Hungarian terrorists, took part in the suppression of an attempt by the radical wing “the Carpathian Sich” to mount a coup on the night of 13 to 14 March 1939, engaged in fighting against the invading Hungarian Army (14–18 March), and subsequently evacuated to Romania. Zeman/Barovský gives due attention to all of these circumstances in the report. In view of the fact that he was very well oriented in the local political scene thanks to his rank he also included descriptions of individual figures in the Carpathian autonomy movement. The edition contains footnotes, a general introduction and a short biography of Antonín Zeman.

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