Jozef Tiso
Joseph Tiso was a Slovak politician who lived from 1887 to 1947. He became the first president of Slovakia in 1939, when the country was separated from Czechoslovakia and became a puppet state of Nazi Germany.
Tiso was a Roman Catholic priest before he entered politics, and he used his religious influence to support Slovak nationalism. He believed that Slovakia should have its own independent state, separate from Czechoslovakia.
During World War II, Tiso cooperated with the Nazis and allowed them to deport Slovak Jews to concentration camps. He also supported the Slovak state's participation in the war on the side of Nazi Germany.
After the war, Tiso was arrested and tried for war crimes and collaboration with the Nazis. He was found guilty and executed in 1947.
Jozef Tiso Media
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Birthplace of Tiso in Bytča, Slovakia
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Tiso wearing a clerical collar circa 1918
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Standard for Tiso as Slovak President, adopted 21 July 1939
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Jozef Tiso greeting Adolf Hitler, at the railway station of Hitler's headquarters 'Wolfsschanze' in East Prussia, with Alexander von Dörnberg in the middle, October 1941
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50 Slovak koruna silver coin issued for the fifth anniversary of the Slovak Republic (1939–1945) with an effigy of Tiso as Slovak President.
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Jozef Tiso decorates German soldiers in Banská Bystrica in Slovakia, who had fought the Slovak National Uprising in 1944