Jozef Tiso (13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a Slovak Roman Catholic priest, and a leading politician of the Slovak People's Party. Between 1939 and 1945, Tiso was the head of the 1939–45 First Slovak Republic, a satellite state of Nazi Germany and he was to remain an active priest throughout his political career.[1] After the end of World War II, Tiso was convicted and hanged for treason that subsumed also war crimes and crimes against humanity by the National Court in Bratislava. |