Jozef Tiso
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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. Af
Tiso in 1936
Birthplace of Tiso in Bytča, Slovakia
Tiso wearing a clerical collar circa 1918
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
Slovak People's Party
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Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, also known as the Slovak People's Party or the Hlinka Party, was a far-right clerico-fascist political party with a strong Catholic fundamentalist and authoritarian ide
Jozef Tiso
…and German. He was introduced to priesthood from an early age, and helped combat local poverty and alcoholism in what is now Slovakia. He joined the Slovak People's Party (Slovenská ľudová strana) in 1918 and became party leader in 1938 following the death of Andrej Hlinka. On 14 March 1939, the Slovak Assembly in…
Andrej Hlinka (pictured above) was the founder of the Slovak People's Party.