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- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Bulgaria Opposed Deportations
- Keywords: Bulgaria,Dannecker,Macedonia,Thrace
- Message-ID: <1992Nov05.130102.10149@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 13:01:02 GMT
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- Holocaust denial is always accompanied with the insistence that there
- existed no deliberate government plan or involvement with regard to the
- extermination of the Jews and other victims of mass murder. Those
- interested in exploring the massive evidence of German (Nazi) government
- involvement in forced deportations might begin with "Holocaust in History,"
- from which the citation below was excerpted. In Chapter 4, "Allies,
- Vanquished States, and Collaborators," Marrus deals with how the satellite
- states reacted to Nazi pressure to deport their Jews; it is such a well
- documented reality that one can only wonder how anyone could deny that such
- organized pressure existed....
-
- "Bulgaria is of special interest since ... there were more Jews alive there
- after the war than before.<50> Unlike other states of southeastern Europe,
- anti-semitism seems to have played only a small part in local politics, and
- the small Jewish community of under fifty thousand, mainly Sephardic in
- origin and well integrated into the country, was not widely perceived as a
- threat. There was considerable opposition to the anti-Jewish regimen of
- 1941, and little interest in surrendering the country's Jews to the Nazis
- later when the latter applied pressure to this end in 1942. Jewish refugees
- even managed to trickle into Bulgaria. Like their Rumanian neighbors, the
- Bulgarians dithered and delayed, holding the Germans off. In early 1943 the
- Germans sent an SS expert, Hauptsturmfuehrer Theodor Dannecker, to Sofia to
- try to speed things up. By that point, however, the Bulgarians too were
- tiring of the war and cooled their affections for their Axis ally. To
- appease Berlin, the government did deport some eleven thousand Jews from
- newly occupied Macedonia and Thrace, territories that were being forcibly
- integrated into their country. At home, however, the feeling against
- deporting Bulgarian Jews strengthened. Metropolitan Stefan of Sofia, the
- Bulgarian patriarch, spoke out, togther with other prominent Bulgarians.
- Allied victories now strengthened the Bulgarians' hand. Finally, the
- deportations were halted. By the spring of 1943 the Germans doubtless
- realized they could achieve no more, and they abandoned their efforts to
- pressure their erstwhile cooperative ally.<51>"
-
- <50> Chary, Frederick. The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution,
- 1940-1944. Pittsburgh, 1981. p. xiii
-
- <51> Chary, Bulgarian Jews; Nisan Oren, "The Bulgarian Exception:
- A Reassessment of the Salvation of the Jewish Community," Yad
- Vashem Studies 7 (1968), 83-106; Vicki Tamir, "Bulgaria and
- Her Jews: The History of a Dubious Symbiosis," New York, 1979
-
- Exerpted from----------------------------------------------
- The Holocaust in History. Michael R. Marrus.
- Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited, 1987 p. 80
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- Other Marrus titles listed in our Holocaust bibliography:
-
- Marrus M. & Paxton, R.O.
- "Vichy France and the Jews" New York: Basic Books, 1981
- Marrus, Michael R., and Paxton, Robert O. "The Nazis and the Jews in
- Occupied Western Europe," Journal of Modern History 54 (1982)
- Marrus, Michael R. The Holocaust in History. Toronto, 1987
- -----------------. The Theory and Practice of Antisemitism. Comentary,
- August 1982
- -----------------. The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century.
- New York, 1985
-
- A recent copy of our Almanac Holocaust files may be obtained via anonymous
- ftp from menora.weizmann.ac.il, as /pub/texts/lest.we.forget/oneb-txt.tar.Z
- - If you do not have ftp access, I'd be happy to send the collection to you
- as uuencoded email. Please specify *.ZIP or compressed tar format.
-
- Individual files are now available via listserv. Send your request to:
- listserv@oneb.almanac.bc.ca, and include the single word 'index' for a list
- of available articles.
-
- For individual files, use the 'get' command, and the archive flag
- 'holocaust' to have them mailed to you..
-
- Example: get holocaust <filename>
- get holocaust b-cpu.faq
- get holocaust irving.canada
-
- For a file list, try "index holocaust"
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