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Jozef Tiso: The Priest-President Who Led Slovakia as a Nazi Puppet State
Jozef Tiso, a Catholic priest who became president of wartime Slovakia, led his country into collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
A Catholic priest turned president, Jozef Tiso led Slovakia into collaboration with Hitler’s Third Reich, transforming a nation once part of democratic Czechoslovakia into a loyal Nazi puppet state. Under his leadership, Slovakia enacted one of the harshest anti-Jewish legal systems in Europe—culminating in the Jewish Code of 1941 and the deportation of over 57,000 Jews to Nazi extermination camps. In public speeches, Tiso used religious…
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