As far as the Slovak Army is concerned, they were all Hlinka adherents, who supported the pro-German president Tiso
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Jan Prokop was born on May 29, 1923, in western Slovakia in the city of Holíč. During the Second World War in 1943 he attended the Military school of aviation in Bánská Bystrice where he was trained as an anti-aircraft machine-gunner. After his military training, he joined the Slovak Army. After the outbreak of the Slovak national uprising he changed sides with his whole unit and joined the rebels. He suffered a head injury in one of the operations of the rebels but in spite of this he still saved his fellow fighter’s life. After the rebellion was suppressed and arrested by the German Army and subsequently transferred to the detention camp Ervěnice in the Sudetenland. Here he worked in the coal mines until the camp was liberated by the Soviets at the end of the war. After his liberation, he was in recovery for a few months from the effects of the harsh conditions in the camp. Eventually, he found a job with the railways, for which he worked at first Roudnice nad Labem and then in Hodonín. His last employer before his retirement was Svit Zlín.
