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The beginning of World War II and the dependence of Bulgaria on a Nazi Germany that by now dominated most of Europe intensified the pressure to pass anti-Jewish legislation. German support for the rejoining of Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria in September 1940 proved the tipping point.
Jews were drafted into the Bulgarian army and fought in the Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885), in the Balkan Wars (1912–13), and in the First World War. 211 Jewish soldiers of the Bulgarian army were recorded as having died during World War I. [3] The Treaty of Neuilly after World War I emphasized Jews' equality with other Bulgarian citizens.
Dimitar Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice during World War II. He rebelled against the pro-Nazi cabinet and prevented the deportation of Bulgaria's 48 000 Jews. He was aided by the strong opposition of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains in order to recover the territories lost in the Second Balkan War and World War I, as well as gain other lands with a significant ...
Aleksandar Georgiev Belev (Bulgarian: Александър Георгиев Белев; 1898, in Lom, Bulgaria – 9 September 1944, in Bulgaria) was the Bulgarian commissar of Jewish Affairs during World War II, famous for his antisemitic and strongly nationalistic views.
Tsar Boris III, concealed savior of the Bulgarian Jews; The Case of Tsar Boris III, Unsung Hero of the Holocaust "The Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II" – via Scribd. Tsar Boris III, Savior of the Bulgarian Jews [permanent dead link ] Historical photographs of the royal palace in Sofia; Empty Boxcars at IMDb
14 December – Shipwreck of the Salvador, a ship carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine, in the Sea of Marmara. 230 of the 326 passengers died in the wreck. [2] 24 December – The Law for the Protection of the Nation, an anti-Jewish racial law which included banning Jews from having Bulgarian citizenship, was ratified. [2]
The Holocaust saw the mass murder of Macedonian Jews in World War II as a result of deportation organized by the governments of Kingdom of Bulgaria and Nazi Germany, with the aim of systematically eliminating the Jewish population from the so-called "newly liberated territories" by the Bulgarian authorities.