Bulgarian Jews and the 1945 “People’s Courts”
Bulgaria was the first state in post-war Europe to hold trials that specifically focused on war-time crimes against Jews. These trials were part of their larger project of prosecuting alleged “Fascists” in the so-called “people’s courts” across Red Army occupied Eastern Europe. Beginning on March 7, 1945, Bulgaria’s trials pre-dated the Nuremburg Trials and were quite distinct from most “peoples courts” trials in the Bloc, which largely focused on the working class or the Soviet Union itself as the primary victims in the war. READ MORE...

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