Jozef Tiso

Jozef Tiso was a Roman Catholic priest and Nazi collaborator who governed Slovakia from 1939 to 1945, a satellite state of Nazi Germany. He graduated in 1910 from the Pasmaneum college in Vienna as a theologian. During World War I, Tiso served as a military chaplain. Tiso was the secretary of the local bishop at the seminary of divinity at Nitra during 1921 to 1924. In 1924, he became the seminary's dean and parish priest of the town of Bánovce nad Bebravou from 1924 to 1945, even when he was the leader of Slovakia. He was antisemitic and had Jews deported to Nazi Germany.

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 * “... But I ask: is it Christian if the Slovak nation wants to rid itself of its eternal enemy – the Jew? Love of self is the command of God, and this love of self commands me to remove from myself everything that damages me, or that threatens my life. And no one needs to be convinced, I think, that the Jewish element threatens the life of the Slovaks. ... We determined ... that the Jews, who made up only 5 percent of the population, had 38 percent of the national income! ... It would have looked even worse if we hadn't pulled ourselves together in time, if we hadn't purged ourselves of them. And we did so according to the divine commandment: Slovak, rid yourself of the vermin.”, Jozef Tiso.