Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Südost-Forschungen
Angaben zur Quelle:
63-64 (2004-2005) 311-338
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Ca. 14,000 Jews were taken for forced labor between 1941-44, especially for road and bridge construction. Contends that following German intervention in 1941 the labor camps in Bulgaria became concentration camps, with total deprivation of rights and arbitrary treatment of Jews albeit with lower death rates than in other countries. Argues that although historical research emphasizes the rescue of Jews in Bulgaria during World War II, the facts are far from positive. The Jews were deprived of their rights, persecuted, dispossessed, and exiled. 11,400 of the ca. 63,000 Bulgarian Jews (including Jews of Macedonia and Thrace) were murdered. Contrary to the accepted view, internment in labor camps was not a form of rescue but rather of severe persecution. Emphasizes the fact that, besides Vichy France, Bulgaria was the only country from where Jews were deported to concentration camps from provinces which were not occupied by the Wehrmacht.
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