Slovakia honors the thousands who fell during the bloodiest mountain battle of World War II
Slovakia observes a solemn day of remembrance for the nearly 70,000 soldiers who perished in the Dukla Pass, a strategic mountain gateway that saw some of the most intense combat of 1944.
Dukla Pass Victims Day honors the staggering loss of life during a seven-week struggle to control a vital mountain pass between Poland and Slovakia. The terrain was so treacherous and the fighting so fierce that the area became known as the Valley of Death. It remains the site of the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on Slovak territory.
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