The State Institution “Commissariat for Jewish Affairs”
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Bulgaria, World War II, anti-Semitism, state institution, bureaucracyAbstract
Any institution organized by a government must define its status and place in the state apparatus, and establish links with other state bodies. It must regulate its funding and develop rules for spending and reporting on the funds it receives. The structure of the institution itself is crucial to its purpose. It is also important to establish some internal rules for its functioning. All these problems were faced by the newly established “Commissariat for Jewish Affairs” in 1942. Although it was created for a temporary purpose – to implement the Law for the Protection of the Nation and other legal acts concerning Jews in Bulgaria – it became a typical Bulgarian state institution, with all the flaws of the bureaucratic apparatus, internal struggles, external dependencies, and its fate was determined by events that took place outside it, even outside the country. Strongly demonized in historiography because of the subject of its activity, the Commissariat has not yet been studied as a state institution with a specific status, internal functioning, and organization.
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