This video is uploaded in honour of the thousands of Macedonian Jews who where murdered at the hands of Bulgarian Nazis during WWII. It is also a response to Bulgarian rednecks and Holocaust deniers who try to whitewash Bulgarian Nazis by denying Bulgaria's active role in the Final Solution and the extermination of the Macedonian Jews.
Bulgarian anti-Semitism and the Bulgarian genocide of the Macedonian Jews is well documented. What is not as thoroughly understood are the causes and events that drove the Bulgarian state to such madness and unspeakable acts of cruelty leading to crimes against humanity. For this to be thoroughly understood we need to dissect the ideas that underpinned Bulgarian Nazism during WWII. The roots of such Bulgarian Nazi ideas precede the Second World War.
In 1878 the Bulgarian state was created out of the ashes of the war between Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The Congress of Berlin, which was a meeting of all the major European players in 1878, endorsed the Treaty of Berlin that sanctioned the existence of new contemporary entities - Bulgaria, Rumelia and Macedonia. These entites were to each have their own degrees of self-government under Ottoman tutelage. Bulgaria achieved autonomy, Rumelia was quasi-autonomous and Macedonia gained minimal self-governance that was subsequently not implemented.
Bulgaria regarded the Treaty of Berlin as a stab in the back, a betrayal of the desire to create a greater Bulgaria that included people and lands that were not Bulgarian. Bulgaria's resentment of the Treaty of Berlin, and later the Macedonian state and people, was founded on the desire to implement the Treaty of San Stefano which preceded the Treaty of Berlin. The Russian Count Ignatiev was the architect of the Treaty of San Stefano which was essentially an ambit claim that was never expected to make it off the drawing board in light of Russian admissions that not all the people within "San Stefano Bulgaria" were Bulgarian.
This did not prevent Bulgarian nationalists from seizing upon the notion of San Stefano Bulgaria as some sort of Magna Carta of the Bulgarian state. Achieving a Greater Bulgaria or San Stefano Bulgaria became the national Bulgarian ideal - the strive to enlarge Bulgaria by incorporating non-Bulgarian lands and people, by whatever means necessary including brute force and genocide. Just as Hitler regarded Tacitus' definition of Germania as the basis for expanding the Third Reich, so did the Bulgarian Tsar Boris look to San Stefano Bulgaria as the promised land of the Bulgarian people.
As events of WWII later showed, Tsar Boris set out to achieve San Stefano Bulgaria in the same way Hitler expanded the Third Reich - warmongering and genocide. Bulgarian Nazis felt that non-Bulgarians were a danger and a menace to the stability of the newly enlarged Bulgarian state. Bulgarian Nazis deployed terror and genocide against non-Bulgarians with the intention of creating an ethnically "pure Bulgarian Empire." Bulgarian Nazis regarded an ethnically pure Bulgaria as an insurance policy against subsequent attempts to challenge San Stefano Bulgaria with another "Treaty of Berlin" that might present itself at a later time.
As such it was not just Macedonians, Greeks or Serbs who were a threat to sustaining San Stefano Bulgaria. The Jews were also regarded as an obstacle by Bulgarian Nazis. The Bulgarian Government enacted anti-Semitic laws that were followed by the Bulgarian deportation and murder of the Macedonian Jews. The Bulgarian government even paid substantial monies to the Third Reich for the extermination of the Macedonian and Bulgarian Jews.
The Bulgarian Jews were saved by an act of God, so to speak. Through dumb luck the Bulgarian Jews were spared from extermination as the result of a delay in the deportation trains.
The Macedonian Jews were not so lucky. The Macedonian Jews were often dragged kicking and screaming by Bulgarian Nazis who helped themselves to the valuables and assets of the Holocaust victims.
The Bulgarian Government still refuses to apologise and offer restitution to Macedonia and Israel over the Bulgarian genocide of the Macedonian Jews.
After Bulgaria's defeat in WWII the Bulgarian communists seized upon the activism of Bulgaria's equivalent of Oskar Schindler - Dimitar Peshev - and certain members of the Bulgarian clergy, with the intent of forging the memory of Bulgaria as the saviour of the Jews. This is a camouflaged form of Holocaust denial by the Bulgarian state.
The memories of the Macedonian Jewish Holocaust survivors in this video are drastically at odds with the official Bulgarian account regarding WWII and the Holocaust. Macedonian Holocaust survivors today remember Bulgarian Nazis as murderers of the Macedonian Jews and not as their saviours.
R.I.P. to the Macedonian Jews that did not survive the Holocaust. They deserve better than the disrespect they are getting from the Bulgarian state today.
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CNN - Macedonia's identity crisis ???by aristotelpiperka6,800 views
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111lidi 3 weeks ago
To protect local population Bulgaria agree on this and save this who ware able to save. During IIWW Macedonians( Macedonian slaves) lost 6150 persons 10 times lest then Yugoslavian average. 90% of this loses ware suffered when Macedonia ware not under Bulgarian control and Bulgarian doesn’t have any participation in it. Bulgarian couldn’t initiate holocaust, it is simple Serbian communist lies which already drive to 4 war in end of XX centaury. STOP SPREDE HAITRES AND LIE .
turan1672 1 month ago
The Jews from Macedonia ware killed in concentrations camps by Germans and no one Bulgarian participate in this. The sad true is that after Serbian annexation of Macedonia local Jews lost they Bulgarian passports and ware not more under Bulgarian protection. One of the condition under which Bulgaria received control under Macedonia ware that Bulgaria couldn’t gave them Bulgarian citizenship back. NO ONE OF THE JEWS WHIT BULGARIAN CITIZENSHIP LOST THEIR LIVE during II WW.
turan1672 1 month ago
Where are the English subtitles ?
Gwynsek 2 months ago
Thanks for your vids ! I wouldn´t generalize about any people,when it comes to atrocities perpetrated under the influence of Nazi ideology,I know mass psychology is utterly dangerous and these ideologies drive people insane, no matter when,no matter where .We are all humans and flawed,we must be on our guards against any such dangerous ideologies as religious fundamentalisms are quite poisonous too !
Gwynsek 2 months ago
I also say thanks to bulgarians they protected and fought for us against turks. Now the presecution of the jews was not cause of bulgarians byself but cause of hitler lieing to them and washed theyr brains. But the one has nothing todo with the other. It was not right bulgarians presecuted the jews and it was not right that hitler presecuted the jews. Blessed is israel and jews forever welcome in our land.
Ahridium777 6 months ago
First of all i am a macedonian orthodox christian. What do i say? Long live israel and long live macedonia! We are one nation! Sephardi jews came in our home not as strangers, but auomatically they were macedonians too. Why? Well as aposple paul wrote, he called the macedonians brothers, cause they were jews too, before paul christianized us.
Ahridium777 6 months ago
we have many people in america who are macedonia gods, russians are the dogs, macdonian jews are the most pure persons on the planet. We have brothers and sisters everywhere, you are not welcome in america, try to naturalize but you will not be good enough, with your tiny russian brains. fools.
GrattoJS 7 months ago
The TRUTH watch?v=nMpyu9n3F2A&feature=fvsr
AnimusPipboy 8 months ago