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The Holocaust: During the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, President Jozef Tiso gave a speech describing Jews as "parasites" and "the eternal enemy".
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Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
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List of Holocaust transports from Slovakia
List of deportation transports from Slovakia during the Holocaust
During the Holocaust, most of Slovakia's Jewish population was deported in two waves—in 1942 and in 1944–1945. In 1942, there were two destinations: 18,746 Jews were deported in eighteen transports to Auschwitz concentration camp and another 39,000–40,000 were deported in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Jozef Tiso
President of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
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Jozef Tiso's speech in Holíč
1942 speech by the president of the Slovak Republic
In August 1942, Jozef Tiso, president of the Slovak State and a Catholic priest, delivered a speech in Holíč, Slovakia, in which he defended the deportation of Jews from Slovakia. Referring to Jews as "parasites" and "the eternal enemy", Tiso claimed that their deportation was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)