..., especially a former Nazi ally, I wish to demonstrate how the double genocide discourse operates at the local level-both to exculpate Bulgarians for their complicity in the death of the Thracian and Macedonian Jewish populations and to undermine and dis­ creditcontemporary left-inspiredpoliticalalternatives...

... ofpolitical belonging espoused by its leaders. The Treaty of Berlin (1878) granted independence to former Ottoman territo­ ries, such as Serbia, Romania, and Montenegro, and it led to the emergence of a new Bulgarian state. Other territories came under the control of rival empires: Bosnia and Herzegovina were...