Tiso, On 113 Charges, Fights For His Life -- Father Jozef Tiso in the prison of the National Court, Bratislava. Father Jozef Tiso, 59-year-old Catholic priest who was President of the Slovak Republic in Hitler's Europe, is facing 113 capital charges are two members of his Government, Interior Minister Sano Mach and Foreign Minister Ferdinand Durcansky - Durcansky is absent, and said to be in Rome. The 52-page indictment of the three men includes accusations of high treason, propagation of Nazism, causing death and imprisonment of Czechoslovak citizens and participation in racial, religious and national persecution. December 04, 1946.