Language:
French
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Hérodote; revue de géographie et de géopolitique
Angaben zur Quelle:
106 (2002) 61-80
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Church history 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Analyzes historical and social factors which interfered with the deportation of Bulgarian Jews during World War II, although Bulgaria was a satellite of Nazi Germany and in 1940 the Bulgarian parliament passed anti-Jewish laws. In 1942 the Nazis demanded the deportation of 20,000 Jews. 11,000 were deported from Macedonia and Thrace, which had been part of Greece and annexed by Bulgaria. This number was to be augmented by Bulgarian Jews. However, intervention by Jewish leaders, Dimitar Peshev, Church authorities, and King Boris III, as well as protests by the Bulgarian populace, caused the deportations to cease. Explains the Bulgarian case, exceptional in Europe under Nazi rule, as a result of the historical alliance of Bulgarians and Jews against Greece, which engendered sympathy for the Jews, especially among Bulgarian nationalists. In addition, members of the Jewish Sephardic community did not occupy important positions in the country, and so did not provoke the envy of the Bulgarian population.
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