Josef Tiso, former president of the pro-Nazi puppet Slovakian Government, was today sentenced to hang. He was convicted of a number of charges including responsibility for the deportation of thousands of Slovakian Jews to Nazi death camps and for the passage of anti-Jewish laws.
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