Father Joseph Tiso, former president of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, agreed to the wholesale deportation of Jews following the defeat of the partisan uprising against the Slovak regime in 1944, S.S. General Hoeffle testified today at Tiso’s trial on war crime charges.
Hoeffle alleged that Tiso had agreed reluctantly after Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler had told him that the revolt had been organized by Slovak Jews, and that stronger measures must be taken. Both Tiso and himself were unware that Jews were sent to death camps, the S.S. officer said.
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