Slovak enigma: a reassessment of the halt to the deportations

Discusses the question of why the Slovak leadership reconsidered its policy on the deportation of the Jews. States that there were three main factors 1. activities of the clandestine "Working Group" and its effective contacts with Jewish organizations in the free world, as well as with Slovak ministers and high officials 2. the intervention of the Vatican and 3. the change in the local population's attitudes under the impact of the situation at the front