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The article describes some of the important events of the years 1945 – 1947 which led to the conviction and death of Jozef Tiso – a former Slovak President of the Slovak state during the World War II and who cooperated with Nazi Germany. In particular, the article focuses on the role of Edvard Beneš - the President of Czechoslovakia in this process, and the defendant's private political rival in the pre-war period.