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
2014; Oxford University Press; Volume: 28; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/hgs/dcu029
ISSN8756-6583
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
ResumoA 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. In the first chapters the author delves into Tiso's evolving ideological outlook from 1918 to 1939. Toward the end Ward traces the battles over the memory of Tiso among exiled Slovak nationalists, the general public, and professional historians ever since his execution in April 1947.
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