Slovak State Jewish Deportations
Clerical-fascist payments per deportee to Nazi Germany
The wartime Slovak State, a German client under Tiso, deported most of its Jewish population and paid the Reich a fee per person removed. Clerical fascism treated murder as a budget line.
Damage
Clerical-fascist Slovak State paid and organized Jewish deportations.
Lives lost
About 70,000 Slovak Jews deported; most murdered
Record Points
- Anti-Jewish codes stripped citizenship, property, and work before the transports began.
- Slovak authorities organized roundups and paid Germany roughly 500 Reichsmarks per deportee.
- Most deportees were murdered at Auschwitz and other killing sites after crossing the border.
- Church and state elites of the Slovak Republic shared ideological cover for the policy.
- Postwar and post-1989 memory still wrestles with Tiso's status as priest-president and perpetrator.
Perpetrator(s)
Victims
Slovak Jews