Mutiny at Kragujevac 1918 (Kragujevac)

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3 June 1918 Slovak soldiers Of Trenčin The 71st Infantry Regiment Of the Austro-Hungarian army (known as tinkers regiment, Ungarisches Infanterieregiment Nr. 71 former Graf Moltke, Regiment Of General Anton Galgótzy ) in Serbian Kragujevac rebelled against his command and refused military duty. After the suppression of rebellion 44 Slovak soldiers were sentenced to death and 8 executed by firing squad in June. Firing squad led replacement battalion commander Lt. Col. Arthur Marx.
At the end of the war was among the Austro-Hungarian army few protests against the war. In Kragujevac serving soldiers from central Slovakia, returned from the Russian front. They were war-weary men and destroyed a long separation from their loved ones. Already in the first days of war in conflict of the officer corps. Slovak and Romanian soldiers received smaller food rations and to command them to deprive organized their transfer to the Italian front. The conflict culminated 2 June 1918 after curfew, when the control was missing several Slovak soldiers. The next morning was held rapport, where there was a shouting match between the officers and crew. Soldiers rebelled, seized weapons and wanted to occupy the barracks.
Until the next morning, was to help strengthen dragoon, Trencin riot troops suppressed. After reading the orders of the soldiers lined up in rows and were ordered to each tenth of his council spoke. Soldiers, deducted Captain Julius Spira, commander of the regiment and a native of tomatoes. Captain Julius Spira, blind officer serving military machine, eventually called the seven hundred and seventy soldiers. With several non-commissioned officers of the group chose 59 men who were tried for organizing and participating in a riot.
Proceedings under the standards of martial law began at 6 June, 1918. All the accused were accused of being "that night 3 Kargujevac in June 1918 when its replacement battalion took part in the common malicious committed to riots in clustered several hundred armed persons for the purpose revolt team against the Staff Regulations against their superiors and to further warfare. "In the early hours of 8 June 1918 bring all the accused in the courtroom at the Regional Headquarters building. After reading the indictment to the judgment, within which were for crimes under § 167 of the Military Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Law sentenced to death by firing squad following members of the Slovak regiment:

1. soldier Pavol Šalanga (23 Y.o.) Vrútky
2. soldier Ondrej Baláž (42) Považský Chlmec
3. soldier Ondrej Smrtník (23) Považská Bystrica
4. soldier Martin Riljak (29) Horná Maríková
5. soldier Ondrej Jariabka (21) Čremošné
6 soldier Štefan Rác (21) Kubrice
7. soldier Alfonz Gál (20) Kolárovice
8. soldier Štefan Radzo (30) Hruštín
9. soldier František Ďurkáč (20) Korna
10. soldier Dionýz Jesenský Petrušé (23) H. Jaseno
11. soldier Jozef Čuraj (30) Veľká Divina
12. soldier Karol Miklušičák (32) Námestovo
13. soldier Alojz Vojár (24) Zákopčie
14. soldier Peter Platoš (24) Zákopčie
15. soldier Matej Frniak (22) Belá pri Varíne
16.soldier Jozef Laššo (23) Petrova Lehota
17. soldier Pavol Kubica (23) Zborov n. Bystricou
18. soldier Vincent Čimbora (23) Krásna
19. soldier Jozef Hotko (27) Horná Súča
20. soldier Ján Križan (29) Veľká Chocholná
21. soldier Ján Gohr (26) Uhrovec
22. soldier Valent Miko (30) Udiča
23. soldier Adam Bičánek (23) Olešná
24. soldier Ján Kašper (25) Sklenné
25. soldier Jozef Hojdík (23) Papradno
26. soldier Martin Kulíšek (21) Štiavnik
27. soldier Martin Cingel (26) Terchová
28.soldier Štefan Skolík (27) Štiavnik
29. soldier Vavrinec Rakovan (27) Štiavnik
30. soldier Ján Pittner (23) Trenčianske Teplice
31. soldier Štefan Bednárik (28) Beckov
32. soldier Štefan Snovák (27) Hruštín
33. soldier Ján Slezák (24) Kunovo
34. soldier Ondrej Brvení (26) Kráľovany
35. soldier Ondrej Kiš (28) Krpeľany
36. soldier Anton Mikuš (34) Rybany
37. soldier Gregor Dvorský (30) Krásna Ves
38. lance Pavol Kleniar (23) Krupina
39. lance Adam Daniš (33) Kolárovice
40. lance Alojz Šelinga (25) Bolešovo
41. corporal Ján Fabo (31) Kubrá
42. corporal Jozef Žoviak (28) Riečnica
43. sergeant Ján Hudec (30) Riečnica
44. sergeant-major Viktor Kolibík (28) Dlhé Poľe
Judgment signed by Colonel von Nagy. Another sixteen soldiers condemned the high court imprisonment. Convicts led to the gallows in Stanovljan´s field in Šumadijski mountains 9 June, 1918. Four-line escort watched the slow path of forced five thousand soldiers. At the place of execution convicts divided into two, 22-member groups. They pledged their eyes and were shot. Bodies were buried on the same day, in two graves in Kragujevac. In 1928 he was at the initiative of the Serbian General Terzebašica the final resting place of Slovak soldiers monument was unveiled. 31 May 1958 was a memorial to the victims Karagujevackej rebellion and built in the courtyard of the former barracks 71st Infantry Regiment in Trencin.