Ján Nálepka
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Ján Nálepka.
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| Nickname(s) | "Repkin" |
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20 September 1912 Smižany, Spišská Nová Ves District, Austria-Hungary  (now Slovakia) |
| Died | 16 November 1943 (aged 31) Ovruch, German-occupied Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union  (now Ukraine) |
| Buried at | Chernivtsi, Ukraine |
| Allegiance |
 Czechoslovakia (1934 - 1939) Slovak Republic (1939 - 1943) Soviet Union (1943) |
| Years of service | 1934 - 1943 |
| Rank | Captain, Brigadier General (posthumously) |
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Ján Nálepka (20 September 1912 in Smižany, Austria-Hungary – 16 November 1943 in Ovruch, German-occupied Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) was a Slovak captain who organized and led an anti-fascist Slovak partisan detachment in the Soviet Union during World War II.
Nálepka was born into a peasant family in the village of Smižany, in Spišská Nová Ves District. From 1931, he worked as a teacher in Stupava, Poruba pod Vihorlatom, Dolná Mariková and Horná Mariková. He served as a lieutenant in the Czechoslovak Army from 1934. In 1941, the German-allied Slovak State participated in Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, and the military unit in which Nálepka served was sent to fight against the Red Army on the Eastern Front. In 1942, while he was Chief of Staff of a Slovak regiment stationed in the town of Yel’sk, Nálepka started organizing an underground anti-fascist group inside the army. For example, Nálepka's group would give the local population information about the situation on the front lines, sabotage railway tracks, and give false information to German military aviators, so that they would bomb uninhabited forest areas instead of towns and villages. The same year, Nálepka also established contacts with Soviet partisans.
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