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From 1 January 1940 to 1 October 1944, he was the Slovak ambassador to
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in March 1944, he issued letters of protection to 3,000 Slovak Jews who had fled to
Hungary in 1942, allowing them to legally cross the border and return home. Spišiak also helped Poles in Hungary by providing them with false Slovak papers enabling them to enter Slovakia.
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German victory would be disastrous for its allies in southeastern Europe, but he did not think that it was a likely outcome. In early 1941 in a meeting with Soviet diplomat
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on 8 February 1945 and deported to Moscow. Following his arrest, he claimed that he had been working for the
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