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The (First) Slovak Republic (Slovak: [Prvá] Slovenská republika), also called the Slovak State (Slovenský štát), was a partially-recognised client state of Nazi Germany which existed in Central Europe between 14 March 1939 and 4 April 1945.
Slovak Republic Slovenská republika | |||||||||
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| 1939–1945 | |||||||||
| Motto: Verní sebe, svorne napred! "Faithful to Ourselves, Together Ahead!" | |||||||||
| Anthem: Hej, Slováci English: "Hey, Slovaks" | |||||||||
.svg) The Slovak Republic in 1942 | |||||||||
| Status | Client state of Germany[a] | ||||||||
| Capital | Bratislava | ||||||||
| Common languages | Slovak, Hungarian | ||||||||
| Religion | Christianity[4] | ||||||||
| Government | Clerical fascist one-party republic under a totalitarian dictatorship | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• 1939–1945 | Jozef Tiso | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1939 | Jozef Tiso | ||||||||
• 1939–1944 | Vojtech Tuka | ||||||||
• 1944–1945 | Štefan Tiso | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||||||
• Independence | 14 March 1939 | ||||||||
• War with Hungary | 23 March 1939 | ||||||||
• Constitution adopted | 21 July 1939 | ||||||||
| 1 September 1939 | |||||||||
| 22 June 1941 | |||||||||
• National Uprising | 29 August 1944 | ||||||||
• Fall of Bratislava | 4 April 1945 | ||||||||
| Currency | Slovak koruna | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Slovakia Poland | ||||||||
One day before the Nazi German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, they declared independence from Czechoslovakia. [5] It has mostly the same borders as the modern-day Slovakia except for the regions which were ceded to Hungary in 1938. The Capital city was declared Bratislava, As it was good in terms of politics, economics and culture when it came to representing Slovakia.
Jozef Tiso, the founder and only President of the Slovak Republic, was a Catholic priest. He was a member of the pro-Nazi Catholic fascist Hlinka Slovak People's Party (HSL’S),[6] which seized power in Slovakia,[6] when Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany, and modelled Slovakia after Nazi Germany's totalitarian state.[6][7]
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The Slovak Hlinka Guard was a militia set up by Jozef Tiso to hunt down Jews, Roma and other "undesirable" minorities.[6]
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In 1940, Jews were fired from their jobs and their properties taken over by Jozef Tiso's regime.[6] Tiso's regime enacted the strictest laws against Jews – called The Jewish Code – in Nazi-occupied European countries.[6] Before the start Tiso's deportation of Jews in March 1942, 88,951 Jews were estimated to be living in Slovakia.[6]
By November 1942, 57,000 Slovak Jews were rounded up and handed over to Nazi German troops by the Hlinka Guard, Slovak police and ethnic German Slovak Freiwillige Schutzstaffel ("Volunteer SS").[6] In the final three months of 1944, over 70,000 of the pre-deportation 88,951 Jews were deported to Nazi death camps, mostly Auschwitz and Theresienstadt,[6] with over 60,000 of them slain.[6] Tiso's regime paid Hitler 500 reichsmarks per deported Jew.[7]
In April 1945, the Slovak capital Bratislava was taken over by the Soviet Red Army, while Romanian troops took over other parts of Slovakia.[6]
Jozef Tiso was handed over by American troops to the restored Czechoslovak government. Tiso was tried along with former Foreign Minister Ferdinand Durčanský and Interior Minister Alexander Mach. He was convicted of treason, collaboration and executed four days after his verdict.[6]
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