Bulgaria's parliament for the first time admitted Friday failing to save over 11,000 Jews from territories under its control as it commemorated the start of deportations 70 years ago. Bulgaria, an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II "refused the deportation of over 48,000 Jews - Bulgarian citizens - to the death camps," parliament said in a declaration.
"An objective assessment of the historical events cannot however reject the fact that 11,343 Jews were deported from northern Greece and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that were under German jurisdiction at the time," it added. Bulgaria has always prided itself for being the only ally of Nazi Germany to save its Jewish population.