Abstract
The survival of Bulgarian Jewry during the Holocaust was exceptional. Bulgaria was a Nazi ally, but due to strong opposition within the Bulgarian government, church and population, Bulgarian Jewish citizens were never deported. Almost all 48,000 survived the Holocaust. Through critical discourse analysis of primary documents, this article identifies an inclusive conception of national identity as key to their survival. Most Bulgarians believed that Jews were fellow citizens, not threatening outsiders, and perceived that it was ‘not Bulgarian’ to deport them. Ethnopolitics thus played a critical role in the survival of Bulgarian Jewry.
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