1. Vojtech Lazar "Bela" Tuka was a Slovak politician who served as prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs of the First Slovak Republic between 1939 and 1945.
10 Facts About Vojtech Tuka
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Vojtech Tuka was the leader of the radical wing of the Slovak People's Party.
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Vojtech Tuka, sometimes referred to by the Magyar name Bela, was born in Hegybanya, in the Hont County of the Kingdom of Hungary.
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Vojtech Tuka studied law at universities in Budapest, Berlin, and Paris.
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On 1 January 1928 Vojtech Tuka published an article titled "Vacuum Juris", alleging that there had been a suppressed annex to the 30 October 1918 "Martin Declaration" by which Slovak representatives officially joined the newly founded state of Czechoslovakia.
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Vojtech Tuka was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment; he served about ten years of that sentence.
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Vojtech Tuka attended the conference, as did Hitler, Tiso, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alexander Mach, and Franz Karmasin, head of the local German minority.
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On 3 September 1940 Vojtech Tuka led the Slovak Assembly to enact Constitutional Law 210, a law authorizing the government to do everything necessary to exclude Jews from the economic and social life of the country.
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In 1942, Vojtech Tuka strongly advocated the deportation of Slovakia's Jewish population to the eastern Nazi concentration camps.
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Together with Internal Affairs Minister Alexander Mach, Vojtech Tuka, who was vice-chairman of the Slovak People's Party, encouraged ever-closer cooperation of the Party with Germany, supported by the Hlinka Guard, successor to the Rodobrana revived by Vojtech Tuka.