Dimitar peshev biography

Dimitar Yosifov Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice (1935–1936), before World War II.
Dimitar Peshev, the Vice President of the Sbranie - Bulgaria's Parliament – had favored Bulgaria's alliance with Germany.
Dimitar Peshev was born in Bulgaria in 1894.

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Sofia, Bulgaria… March 1943 – In January 1941, Bulgaria passed anti-Jewish legislation modeled after the Nuremberg laws that Germany had instituted in 1935. The Bulgarian government felt that an alliance with the Germans would enable the country to regain land it had lost decades earlier. Persecuting the nearly 50,000 Jews was a way to show common cause. Some Bulgarian politicians, writers, intellectuals, and church leaders protested the measures, but the government stood firm. Germany realized that it had a loyal partner in Bulgaria and welcomed the country into the Axis alliance in March 1941.

Dimitar Peshev, the deputy speaker of the Bulgarian parliament, supported the anti-Jewish legislation. He felt that Bulgaria’s alliance with Germany was in his country’s best interests and that the anti-Jewish measures were a shrewd move. The strategy proved a success. In April 1941, Bulgaria participated in the invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia and received portions of each country in return. Another 11,000 Jews came under Bulgarian rule, more than 7,000 in Thrace (annexed fro

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Dimitar Peshev

Contesting the Deportations in Parliament

Like many other political figures in his country, Dimitar Peshev, the Vice President of the Sbranie - Bulgaria's Parliament – had favored Bulgaria's alliance with Germany. Germany rewarded its ally, and when Yugoslavia was divided between the Axis powers, Bulgaria regained the territories that it had lost in the Balkan war of 1912-3.

Peshev's party which was the government majority party enacted anti-Jewish legislation, such as the 1940 Law for the Defense of the Nation, which restricted Jews' participation in the country's economic and social life and imposed a special tax on Jews. In addition Jews were ordered to wear a Jewish star and male Jews were drafted for forced labor. The proposed bill produced mixed reactions. There was a certain support for the anti-Jewish measures, as well as protests by organizations such as the Bulgarian Writers Union and the Physicians Union. Peshev supported the bill, as he explained in his post war memoirs: 'I was of the firm conviction that all this was indeed about bringing Bulgaria'

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Never Forgotten: The Story Of Bulgarian Holocaust Hero Dimitar Peshev

In the movies, the hero always receives the happy ending with their new significant other, though, the story of this hero is one of triumph, turmoil and abandonment.

Before Dimitar Peshev chose to put his career, life and future on the line to do what was right, he was a famed Bulgarian politician and at the time was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria. His triumph was his decision to rebel against the Pro-Nazi Bulgarian cabinet and prevent the deportation of over 48,000 Bulgarian Jews to the Nazi concentration camps.

Dimitar Peshev was born on June 25, 1894 and grew up in Kyustendil, Bulgaria. He fought in World War I, later becoming a lawyer and later a judge. In the Bulgarian parliament, Peshev had built up a reputation as an honest politician and a warrior for human rights. His reputation was so strong around his fellow assemblymen, in 1938, he became the Deputy Speaker of the Bulgarian National Assembly.

At the start of World War II, Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria allied with Nazi Germ