Jozef Gašpar Tiso was a Slovak politician 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. In 1947, after the war, he was executed for treason in Bratislava.
Tiso, c. 1936
Jozef Tiso with Adolf Hitler
Jozef Tiso decorates German soldiers in Banská Bystrica in Slovakia, who had fought the Slovak National Uprising in 1944
Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
The (First) Slovak Republic, otherwise known as the Slovak State, was a partially-recognized client state of Nazi Germany which existed between 14 March 1939 and 4 April 1945 in Central Europe. The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia declared independence with German support one day before the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia. It controlled most of the territory of present day Slovakia, without its current southern parts, which were ceded by Czechoslovakia to Hungary in 1938. It was the first time in history that Slovakia had been a formally independent state. Bratislava was declared the capital city.
Vojtech Tuka served as prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs of the First Slovak Republic
A Slovak-Nazi propaganda poster, "Our friendship is inseparable!", 1940
German Führer Adolf Hitler greeting president of the Slovak Republic Jozef Tiso, 1941
Commander of Hlinka Guard Interior Minister Alexander Mach and German Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick visit in Nazi Germany