The museum and memorial are located on the sites where German troops and members of the POHG (Emergency Squad of the Hlinka Guard) executed up to 900 people in January 1945. The exhibition is dedicated to one of the most tragic chapters of Slovak modern history – the reprisals by the German Nazis and their local collaborators from the ranks of the POHG and members of the German nationality group.
The first part of the exhibition provides a general introduction to the subject. At the same time, it depicts the course, the main actors and victims of the killings in Kremnička and Nemecká – the places of the most extensive reprisals with the character of extermination actions in the territory of Slovakia. It also briefly documents the basic tendencies of the development of the People’s regime and the events leading up to the military suppression of the Slovak National Uprising (SNU) by units of the German Armed Forces and the SS and the occupation of the political and military centre of the Uprising – Banská Bystrica.
