Andrej Hlinka

Andrej Hlinka (1864-1938) was a Slovak politician and Catholic priest, one of the most important Slovak public activists and nationalists in Czechoslovakia before the Second World War. He was the leader of the Slovak People's Party, papal chamberlain (since 1924), inducted papal protonotary (since 1927), member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia (the parliament) and chairman of the St. Vojtech Group (organization publishing religious books).

Andrej Hlinka in Hitler's War
While Andrej Hlinka died just over a month before Germany attacked Czechoslovakia in October, 1938, his nationalist legacy lived on in the Hlinka Guard, which glady accepted German support for an independent Slovak Republic, and in turn aided Germany militarily, hastening the fall of Czechoslovakia just over a month after the World War II.