Walton Walker
The First Slovak Republic ceased to exist "de facto" on 4 April 1945 when the Red Army captured Bratislava and occupied all of Slovakia. "De jure" it ceased to exist when the exiled Slovak government capitulated to General Walton Walker leading the XX Corps of the 3rd US Army on 8 May 1945 in the Austrian town of Kremsmünster. In summer 1945, the captured former president and members of former government were handed over to Czechoslovak authorities.