Vojtech Tuka Politician

Vojtech "Béla" Tuka (4 July 1880 – August 20, 1946) was the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the 1939-1945 First Slovak Republic) between 1940 and 1945. Tuka was one of the main forces behind the deportation of Slovak Jews to Nazi concentration camps in German occupied Poland. He was the leader of the radical wing of the Slovak People's Party.

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Vojtech Tuka
Birth dateJuly 04, 1880
Birth place
Hungary , Slovakia , Štiavnické Bane
Date of deathAugust 20, 1946
Place of death
Czechoslovakia , Slovakia , Bratislava

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office
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Prime Minister
First Slovak Republic
Deputy Czechoslovak Parliament
other party
Slovak People's Party
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