Jozef Tiso
said
People ask whether what is being done with the Jews is Christian. Is it human? Is it not robbery? ...
— Jozef Tiso's speech in Holič, August 1942
Jozef Tiso
Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
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A Catholic priest who led Slovakia as a Nazi client state and collaborated in the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to extermination camps during World War II. He was hanged for treason in 1947.
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Born in 1887 in what was then Hungary, Tiso studied for the priesthood and worked against local poverty before entering politics with the Slovak People's Party in 1918. He became party leader in 1938, and when Slovakia declared independence in March 1939—two days before Nazi Germany seized the rest of the Czech lands—Tiso moved from prime minister to president by October. From March to October 1942, his government deported Slovak Jews to German extermination and concentration camps; after the Slovak National Uprising was crushed in summer 1944, another 13,500 were deported that September. When…
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Jozef Tiso
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...We bow to the closest Slav, brother Czech, to apply our sovereignty as a small nation together with him in the common state.
— Jozef Tiso, Czechoslovak parliament, 3 February 1933
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