Bulgarian National Socialist Workers Party

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The Bulgarian National Socialist Workers Party (Bulgarian language:Българска Национал Социалистическа Работническа Партия) was a Nazi party based in the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

It was one of a number of anti-Semitic groups to emerge in Bulgaria after the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, with other notable groups including the Union of Bulgarian National Legions and Ratnik.[1] The party was established by Doctor Hristo Kunchev or Kuntscheff in 1932, who had studied medicine in Berlin.[2] The party sought to copy the Nazi Party by adopting the National Socialist Program, the swastika and other symbols of the German party.[2] Like most of its competitors on the far right it was an ephemeral group with only a small membership.[3] The party published a newspaper called "Attack!", similar to "Der Angriff" of Joseph Goebbels.[citation needed] After the Bulgarian Communist Party established the People's Republic of Bulgaria the party was banned, although it had stopped existing much earlier.[citation needed]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Guy H. Haskell, From Sofia to Jaffa: the Jews of Bulgaria and Israel, Wayne State University Press, 1994, p. 111
  2. ^ a b Rupert Butler, Hitler's Jackals, Leo Cooper, 1998, p. 44
  3. ^ Ivan Ilchev, Bistra Rushkova, The Rose of the Balkans: A Short History of Bulgaria, Colibri, 2005, p. 44
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