[Jews in occupied Bulgaria (III)]

The file is the third part of a series of files containing documents on the situation of Jews in Bulgaria during its time as an Ally of Nazi Germany. This file contains diplomatic correspondence between the German Foreign Ministry and the German representatives in Sofia regarding the treatment of Jews in Bulgaria and the German position regarding Bulgarian Jewish representatives (Josef Geron) as well as State representatives and sympathizing academics, for example professor Stefan Konsulov, the Bulgarian “commissar of Jewish Affairs” Alexander Belev, and the Bulgarian minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Popov. Written between December 1941 and February 1943, the documents include mostly letters and reports, such as a report on the plans for the persecution of Jews in Bulgaria by “Unterstaatssekretär” Martin Luther, a diplomat of the so-called department “Abteilung Deutschland”; furthermore, a juridical evaluation of Conrad Roediger from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the possibility of a European unitary regulation regarding the persecution of Jews, and a report of ten pages regarding the reception held by the Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany, Joachim von Ribbentrop, for the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Popov in Berlin in November 1942. Some documents are of poor quality and barely readable.