Fascist Bulgaria's occupation of Macedonia during World War II

[The LION will ROAR]

Greece launched a book on Bulgaria's participation in the persecution of the Jews

http://www.netpress.com.mk/mk/vest.asp?id=118884&kategorija=5

Another testament to the participation of Bulgaria in the arrest and deportation of Jews to death camps, a book titled "The Rescue", was recently promoted in Greece, Athens correspondent Netpress.

"Night March 3 against 4, 1943 year, 187 members of the Jewish community in New Orestiada Greek territory under Bulgarian occupation, were captured literally while you sleep and sent to Nazi concentration camps, where after the war returned only three" - this is one of many examples in the book of Greek authors scour Lampsa and Jacob symptoms, in which 431 page through photos, documents and testimonials shown Bulgaria's participation in the persecution of the Jews by the Macedonian and Greek territories which were under Bulgarian occupation .

Book authors write that even 86 percent of Jews who zheveele Greek territory occupied by Bulgaria were arrested and deported to concentration camps.

Thessaloniki however, Bulgaria has managed to deport even 96 percent of the Jewish population, said in the text.

The emphasis in the book is placed on assistance or zasolnishtvoto that Greece gave part of the Jews who were lucky to be saved from one of the two choices that the Bulgarian authorities in cooperation with the Nazis put available - terrible end or horror without end.

Just a reminder, the number of Jews from Bulgaria Macedonian territories under Bulgarian occupation deported right to death is over 7200 or 98 percent of the total Jewish population in Macedonia.

"Good idea Bulgarian Ambassador in Athens gave this book to his President Boris as further evidence that the Bulgarian authorities collaborated with the Nazis to exterminate the Jews of Macedonian and Greek occupied territories," said Philip Paul Netpress Voskopoulos leadership party of Macedonians in Greece "Rainbow".

Given the fierce criticism that the Bulgarian state leadership sent to the Macedonian film "The Third Half" which covers the same topics, it remains an open question - whether there will be and what will be rekacijata Sofia in terms of this book, packed with authentic documents .

"Instead of the middle of Athens to talk about art as a movie, it would be better Mr. Borisov to read these documents from the book," said Pavle Filipov Voskopoulos.

[The LION will ROAR]

German Archives show Bulgarians rounded up and transported Macedonian Jews

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22629/45/

The rounding up and transportation of the Macedonian jewish population was done by the Bulgarian Government. The so called Bulgarian patriots in Sofia continue to claim their Government had nothing to do with Macedonia's jews, however newly released evidence straight from the German archives show that Macedonia was occupied by Bulgaria as the eastern neighbor was part of Germany's axis during WW2.

Great deal of documents show Sofia was fully in charge of the entire operation, it even negotiated the price with the Nazis. All documents are in Bulgarian, signed by Bulgarian representatives at Skopje's train station and army officials responsible for occupied Macedonian territories.
For instance one document clearly shows the train trip Macedonian jews (3545 adults and 592 children) will make to their final destination, the concentration camp Treblinka in Poland.
For this 'work', the Bulgarian Government charged Nazi Germany 7,144.317 lev.

For the remaining Macedonian jewish community this is just additional evidence about the direct involvement of the Bulgarian Government in the deaths of 98% of the Macedonian jewish population.
The Bulgarian army is also responsible for stealing treasures not just from Macedonia's jews, but also emptied numerous museums around the country.



How can the Bulgarians deny this...?

[George S.]

They are in denial.So all those bulgarians were just cannon fodder.I'm sure the relatives won't be pleased abandoning their loved ones like that.Come to that there is no recognition of what their loved ones did.So all that lying is well knownit won't cut ice with macedonians.We may be stupid but were not that stupid to beleive bulgarian bs propaganda.If i had a dollar for each time the bulgarians are trying to trick us macedonians i'd be a rich man.

[TrueMacedonian]

The Bulgarian lies are coming out utilizing professors (lol) from the Bulgarian Science's. Well I hope every Bulgar refer's to page one of this. Here is a recent propaganda article from bulgaria's "focus".

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n296440

There was no ‘Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia’ in WWII, as there was no resistance: academician
09 January 2013 | 13:32 | FOCUS News Agency

Home / Bulgaria

Sofia. “There was no ‘Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia’ during the WWII because there was no resistance,” said historian Academician Georgi Markov with the Institute of History with the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS) in an interview with FOCUS News Agency.
Asked whether the Bulgarian politicians should apologise about the Vatasa case, as heard commented in Skopje, Markov said the following: “Recently we published the memoires of General Vasil Boydev, who is commander of V Army, with headquarters in Skopje – from the summer of 1941 until May 1994. He tells about his meeting with Boris III of Bulgaria, who sends him to Skopje and tells him “to touch with velvet gloves. Be very careful, because the population has already suffered too much and you will not allow internecine war”.”
In his words, there is nothing to apologise about.

[The LION will ROAR]

The Dark Side of Bulgaria's Treatment of the Jews
Published: Saturday, July 21, 2012

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11944

In the shadow of the terror attack in Borgas, the media recalls how the Bulgarian government saved Bulgaria's Jews from the Holocaust - but not what they did to the Jews of Greece and Yugoslavia, which the Bulgarians considered part of Bulgaria.
With the July 18, 2012 terrorist attack against Israelis in the city of Burgas, the Bulgarian government found itself the subject of praise, as a result of their protecting their nation's Jewish population during the Holocaust. The following day, an Arutz Sheva column and even Fox News extolled Bulgaria's record, noting that last week's bombing was the first such attack in the nation's history, and explaining how the Bulgarians saved their Jews during WWII.
This is an often repeated statement, but it is a half truth; there is another, dark chapter to the story.
The contemporary media reported how "Bulgaria became the only Nazi-allied country in World War II to protect its entire Jewish population" or that "Bulgaria saved all of its Jews from the death camps."
While the Bulgarian king, government, the public, and the clergy, did in fact take laudable actions which halted the deportation of a certain 50,000 Jews from parts of Bulgaria to German death camps in Poland, there is no reason why the Bulgarian government should not discuss - and admit to - the 13,000 non-Bulgarian Jews their soldiers dispossessed, imprisoned, and deported from land they were occupying during the war.
On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria entered into a pact with the Axis powers and participated in the German-led attack on Yugoslavia and Greece. As a reward from Adolf Hitler, Bulgaria received most of the Balkan area known as Thrace and Macedonia. Stating that Thrace and Macedonia were their ancient Bulgarian lands, they declared the territory "New" or "United Bulgaria" and, within one month, initiated a colossal national campaign of Bulgarization against the citizens of that area that included deporting all of the area's 13,000 Jews.
The Jewish communities of Yugoslavian Thrace and Greek Macedonia were made up mostly of Spanish-speaking Jews, descendants of refugees expelled from Spain in 1492. In March 1943, the Jews of the cities of Kavala, Drama, Komotini, Seres, Xanthi and Alexandroupolis, were dragged from their beds at midnight, barely dressed, in sub-freezing conditions and placed into warehouses in their respective cities.
The Bulgarian military established a blockade around the cities to prevent escape. Bulgarian soldiers broke into Jewish homes and hauled out their inhabitants. The Jews were forced to walk, for many miles, being whipped by troops; many Jews died along the way from cold, malnutrition and beatings. They were placed in tobacco warehouses, women were raped, and then locked inside freight trains as human cattle for the dreaded trip to Treblinka-many dying en route. The Jews of Monastir were locked in ghettos, their property looted and stolen by Bulgarian policemen, who checked house by house, to ensure that all the family members had left and all valuables were confiscated.
In all, over 13,000 Jewish people, husbands, wives, grandparents, sons, daughters, cousins, aunts and uncles, were deported by Bulgarians to Treblinka where they were murdered in German gas chambers. .
In the eyes of the Parliament at Sofia, Thrace and Macedonia soon became legitimately and completely Bulgarian. The governmental organization in Thrace and Macedonia, its infrastructure, civic administration, general educational system, institutes of higher learning, religious bodies, economy, and culture became wholly and legally Bulgarian. The government was extremely proud of this, and established and funded patriotic organizations in Macedonia to show the people and tell the world that Macedonia was their own. They formed cultural and charitable organizations in their beloved United Bulgaria, and commissioned, printed and issued, nearly seven million commemorative postage stamps in 1941, recalling the "recovery" of Macedonia.
Yet today, when it comes to discussing how 13,000 Jews from Thrace and Macedonia who were deported by Bulgarian police officers and soldiers to Treblinka where they were killed, Bulgaria remains silent. They laud themselves for not allowing the deportation of Bulgaria's 50,000 Jews, but it seems that the "price" paid to the Nazis for letting them save their "own" Jews was the deaths of the Jews of Macedonia and Thrace.
The deaths of 13,000 Jews occurred with the direct participation and knowledge of ho the Bulgarian government in alliance and volunteer partnership with Nazi Germany. 98 percent of Macedonia's Jews were deported - none survived.
To counter current accusations of lack of human rights on the world stage, on more than one occasion, Bulgaria has revisited the claim that it had saved 50,000 Jews, and that Bulgaria was "humanitarian," and that it would keep up its "respect for human life and human dignity." On at least one occasion, ex-president Peter Stoyanov said that the Jews' rescue from deportation was "the best answer to the constantly asked question, 'What have you contributed to European civilization?' "
Now, with the murdeous Islamist bombing attack on Israelis tourists visiting Bulgaria, the Bulgarians are basking in the glory of how they elected not to kill 50,000 Jews, how they saved them and how they have always been friends to the Jewish people. Not "always" and not to all of the Jewish people..

[Soldier of Macedon]

SOM, i have no intention to involve any conversation with you.......

Onur, we had a disagreement on linguistics. You need to either get over it already, or, go back to that thread and substantiate your claim that most Balkan placenames that end with 'ovo' can be explained through Turkic.

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3181&page=10

......but you have to remember that i was the one again who noticed dialogue like messages between Voltron and Ottoman with only one minute interval between all msgs of them.

Do you also remember all of the other threads where I supported you and your views? Or have you conveniently forgotten these?

Only then you have banned Ottoman at that time but you didn't notice anything about that at all.

You may have been one of the first to notice that something wasn't right, but you weren't the only one. It was only a matter of time before that was addressed.

So, which one worths 2 cent now? Your forum administration or my comment for that?

Your comment, like I previously indicated. Because you insinuated that the administrators were too busy arguing with fellow Macedonians to notice people abusing their own forum. In fact, such a lie isn't even worth 2 cents.

[Onur]

SOM, i have no intention to involve any conversation with you but you have to remember that i was the one again who noticed dialogue like messages between Voltron and Ottoman with only one minute interval between all msgs of them. Only then you have banned Ottoman at that time but you didn't notice anything about that at all.

So, which one worths 2 cent now? Your forum administration or my comment for that?

[Soldier of Macedon]

But because other admins here are more involved with arguing with their fellow Macedonians, attacking them for no reason, so i don't think they notice such stuff here anyway.

just my 2 cents!

And 2 cents is about all the last part of your comment is worth.

[fatso]

I must join in the fun here.

Onur, this was your best response to someone who has tried to proven how hypocritical you are.....he's a Greek...he's a Greek.

You parade through this forum blaming the Greeks, Bulgars, Serbs, Orthodox priests and other Christian Europeans with all the evils of the world , etc. Yet, you won't admit to anything.

Just my 2 cents.

[Risto the Great]

Risto, he is a Greek.

Not sure about that but time will tell.
At the end of the day, I am far more interested in intelligent dialogue and it feels like a breath of fresh air when it happens. Presently I am too disappointed in Macedonians to worry about other races' problems. We are a silly bunch of little people with little aspirations it would appear.

[Risto the Great]

sorry ok not agan

Appreciated.

[Voltron]

Onur, i dont know whether to laugh at you or feel sorry for you.
Man up already, your such a drama queen.

Its also funny how cenzikhan showed up the same time you did, and both of you refer to Kosovo as Kosova. Were you testing the waters before you made your re-entry ?
Seriously man, get over it.

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6289&page=3

[TojSum]

ASSOCIATION of JEWS from MACEDONIA in ISRAEL

About "saviours" from Bulgaristan

1. http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._4265600_n.jpg

2. http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3697105_n.jpg

Enough said.

[Onur]

Risto, he is a Greek.

I checked his previous msgs, wondering what the hell is up for. It looks like he tried to write in broken english at first and attacked you (wonder why?!) in his first msg by saying;

This was from Risto Why you erase. Why you not want truth. Turks raping killing young Kurdish girls today. This is not free forum. Shame on you.

Now it looks like he doesn't bother trying to write broken english anymore. Already, if his english knowledge is not enough to write few proper sentences, then how come he can read threads here for a year? Also it`s strange that Mr. Kurd appeared on here just one day after i returned here after 3 months break.

You know what Risto, this Kurd is no other than Voltron the Greek. He was here before with Ottoman nickname, toying with all of us by logging in with two different accounts and on two different browsers open at the same time, using proxy servers. And it looks like as soon as he saw that i am back here, he created this username Kurd.

But because other admins here are more involved with arguing with their fellow Macedonians, attacking them for no reason, so i don't think they notice such stuff here anyway.

just my 2 cents!

[Kurd!]

sorry ok not agan