Foreign Affairs: Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia
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Jozef Tiso
Jozef Gašpar Tiso was a Slovak politician, dictator, and Catholic priest who served as president of the First Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. After the war, in 1947, he was convicted of treason and executed in Bratislava.
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politics · President of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945 · politician · Catholic priest · military officer · essayist · diarist · teacher · also Jozef Tiso, Josef Tiso, Joseph Tiso, Father Tiso, Tiso
Born 13 October 1887 · Died 18 April 1947 · Q154346
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2008· 1 entry
His remains were buried in the canonical crypt of the Cathedral in Nitra, Slovakia
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1989· 1 entry
And the subsequent independence of Slovakia, heated debate began again on his role
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1947· 2 entries
Died 1947-04-18.
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Was convicted of treason and executed in Bratislava
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1943· 1 entry
Rumours of further deportations emerged, the Papal Nuncio in Istanbul, Msgr
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1942· 2 entries
Amid Vatican protests as news of the fate of the deportees filtered back, and the German advance into the Soviet Union was halted, Slovakia then became the first of Hitler's puppet states to shut down the deportations
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Who were subsequently murdered, and paying for it with 100 million Ks to Nazi Germany
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1939· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of Slovakia (1939–1945).
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1938· 1 entry
With increasing pressure from Nazi Germany and Hungary, the representatives of HSĽS questioned neighboring states on their views for the future of Slovakia
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1936· 1 entry
“s view of Slovak autonomy continue to radicalize, drawing concern from Czech centralists. In mid-1934, Tiso was deeply disturbed by the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss, who, like Tiso, held strong Catholic beliefs; Tiso became skeptical of fascism, proclaiming,”
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1930· 2 entries
Became the official vice-president of the party and seemed destined to succeed Hlinka, whose health was deteriorating
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Tiso published The Ideology of the Hlinka's Slovak People's Party explaining his views on the Czech-Slovak relationship
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1926· 1 entry
To the 28th International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, he delegated Tiso to represent him in the presidium of the party
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1924· 1 entry
Tiso left Nitra to become dean of Bánovce nad Bebravou, in some sense exiled from Nitra for his polarizing political activism
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1923· 1 entry
But retained him as a professor of theology
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1921· 1 entry
Tiso was appointed Monsignor by the Vatican, although this appointment lapsed with the later death of Pope Benedict XV
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1919· 2 entries
For the new artificial state of Czechoslovakia)
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Founded a subsidiary of the party in Nitra and he organized a gymnastic organization, Orol (Eagle), the counterweight of a similar Czech organization, Sokol
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1918· 1 entry
And became party leader in 1938 following the death of Andrej Hlinka
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1906· 1 entry
Was ordained a priest in 1910 and graduated as a Doctor of Theology in 1911
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1902· 1 entry
Began to study at the higher Piarist grammar school in Nyitra (today Nitra, Slovakia)
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1887· 2 entries
Born 1887-10-13.
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To Slovak parents in Nagybiccse (today Bytča), then part of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, Tiso studied several languages during his school career, including Hebrew and German
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