You have just visited the website of a project devoted to review court trials from post war years 1945-1948 in the reinstated Czechoslovakian democracy, with an emphasis on the retributive justice of the so called Slovak National Council. At that time in Slovakia, the illegal and illegitimate Slovak National Council established special courts (national court and people’s courts) that were within their sphere of competence supposed to deal not only with the representatives of the overthrown regime of the first Slovak Republic 1939-1945, but also with those exponents of national minorities, who had been publicly involved on behalf of their fellow-tribesmen throughout the existence of the Slovak state. The courts punished the convicts with a whole range of penalties: from a public reprimand, loss of citizen rights and forfeiture of entire property through extraordinary punishments of imprisonment to death by shooting or hanging. However, most of the court trials from that period showed clear signs of political trials.