Jozef Tiso

Jozef Tiso (1887-1947) was a Slovak politician and Catholic priest who rose to the Presidency of the Slovak Republic, a German puppet state established during World War II. Tiso was captured after the war, and executed as a war criminal.

Jozef Tiso in Hitler's War
Jozef Tiso had succeeded Andrej Hlinka as leader of the Slovak People's Party in 1938, concurrent with Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia in October, 1938. Tiso and his fellow nationalists were quite happy to become German puppets when the Slovak Republic was created after Czechoslovakia's fall.