Jozef Gašpar Tiso
(
Slovak pronunciation:
[ˈjɔzef ˈtisɔ]
;
Hungarian
:
Tiszó József
; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a
Slovak
politician and
Roman Catholic priest
who served as president of the
Slovak Republic
, a
client state
of
Nazi Germany
during
World War II
, from 1939 to 1945. In 1947, after the war, he was executed for treason
[1]
in
Bratislava
.