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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jozef Tiso (13 October 1887 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician of the SPP and priest, who became the fascist leader of the Slovak State, a satellite state of Nazi Germany existing between 1939 an... More

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jozef Tiso (13 October 1887 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician of the SPP and priest, who became the fascist leader of the Slovak State, a satellite state of Nazi Germany existing between 1939 and 1945. After the end of World War II, Tiso was convicted and hanged for his activities in support of nazism and treason. Born in Nagybiccse, (today's Byta) to Slovak parents in Austria-Hungary. The Bishop of Nitra (Nyitra), Imre Bende, offered Tiso a chance to study for the priesthood, and, in 1911, Tiso graduated from the prestigious Pázmáneum in Vienna. His early ministry was spent as an assistant priest in three parishes in today's Slovakia. After brief frontline service as a field curate in World War I, he was appointed as the Spiritual Director of the Nitra seminary by Bende's successor, Vilmos Batthyány. Tiso was also active at this time as a school teacher and journalist. His articles for the local paper would later be controversial because of their strong support for the Hungarian war cause. With the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, Tiso suddenly embraced politics as a career, at the same time declaring himself in public as a Slovak. Within a few weeks, he had joined the Slovak People's Party. From 1921 to 1923, he served as the secretary to the new Slovak bishop of Nitra, Karol Kmeko. During the same period, political agitation earned Tiso two convictions for incitement, the second of which resulted in a short incarceration. Displeased, Kmeko dropped him as secretary in 1923, but retained him as a Professor of Theology. In 1924, Tiso left Nitra to become parish priest and then dean of Bánovce nad Bebravou. His dedication to this parish would become legendary, and he would remain its very active prie... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=182328

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