Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia, James Mace Ward (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), 362 pp., hardcover 39.95, electronic versions available
A collaborator and traitor, or martyr and head of the first independent Slovak state since the ninth century? Jozef Tiso, a Catholic priest and the wartime president of Slovakia, still belongs to the contested figures of modern Central European history. James Ward presents the first comprehensive an...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 338-340 |
| Review of: | Priest, politician, collaborator (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013) (Láníček, Jan)
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| Summary: | A collaborator and traitor, or martyr and head of the first independent Slovak state since the ninth century? Jozef Tiso, a Catholic priest and the wartime president of Slovakia, still belongs to the contested figures of modern Central European history. James Ward presents the first comprehensive and balanced assessment of Tiso, going well beyond a pure biography of the only Catholic priest who ever served as president of a nation-state and offering a careful analysis of his political decisions during the war. Ward follows Tiso's footsteps from elementary school in the Hungarian Felvidék province (contemporary Slovakia) to his postwar trial for collaboration with Nazi Germany, betraying interwar Czechoslovakia, and persecution of the Jewish population in Slovakia. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu029 |