Josef Tiso

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Tiso, Josef

Born Oct. 13, 1887, in Vel’ká Bytča, Hungary (now Bytča, Czechoslovakia); died Apr. 18, 1947, in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Slovak nationalist political and clerical figure.

Tiso was a Catholic priest and a professor of theology. A Slovak fascist ideologue, he became the leader of the Slovak Populist Party in August 1938. In 1938 and 1939 he was head of the autonomous government of Slovakia, formed by Slovak separatists after the signing of the Munich Pact of 1938. From 1939 to 1945 he served as president of the “independent state” of Slovakia, which had been placed under the “protection” of Germany. As such, he helped steer Slovakia into the war against the USSR on the side of fascist Germany; he also was responsible for reprisals against those who fought in the national liberation movement in Slovakia. In 1947, Tiso was executed in accordance with a sentence imposed by the People’s Court of Czechoslovakia.

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The war situation in the summer of 1944 exacerbated these tensions and presented an opportunity for the Slovak opposition to stage an uprising against their puppet government, under Monsignor Jozef Tiso and thereby, the power of Nazi Germany.

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During the reporting period, extreme-right nationalist and neo-Nazi groups, including Slovenska Pospolitost (Slovak Community) and Narodny Odpor (National Resistance), held numerous public rallies in support of the World War II-era Fascist Slovak state and its leader Jozef Tiso, responsible for sending thousands of Slovak Jews to their death in Nazi concentration camps.

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``But the public is much more interested in the lives of the rich and famous,and so I find it easier to sell a book proposal on a gorgeous movie star like Halle as opposed to the current book I'm researching about Monsignor Jozef Tiso -the Roman Catholic priest who was a Slovakian dictator during World War II.