Ferdinand Čatloš (1895-1972) was a Slovak military officer and politician. } The Slovaks or Slovakians are a western Slavic People that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is Throughout his short career in the administration of the Slovak Republic he held the post of the Minister of Defence. The Slovak Republic ( Slovak: Slovenská republika) was an independent national Slovak state which existed from 14 March 1939 He was also the commanding officer of the Field Army Bernolák during the Invasion of Poland. Field Army Bernolák, sk Slovenská Poľná Armáda skupina "Bernolák". The Slovak invasion of Poland (1939 occurred during Nazi Germany 's invasion of Poland. During 1944, he was one of the main leaders of the Slovak National Uprising against Nazi Germany, but it was brutally put down and he was arrested. The Slovak National Uprising ( Slovak: Slovenské národné povstanie, abbreviated SNP or 1944 Uprising was an armed Insurrection organized Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Following the World War II he was briefly imprisoned, set free in 1948 he spent the rest of his life working as an ordinary clerk in Martin, Slovakia. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Martin ( Turčiansky Svätý Martin until 1950 Turócszentmárton German: Turz-Sankt Martin, Latin: Sanctus Martinus / Martinopolis)