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The Contingency of Goodness and the Fate of Bulgarian Jews

In her reflections on the horrendous crimes against European Jews following Hitler's rise to power, Hannah Arendt has shown how evil perpetuates itself in the banality of everyday life, whereas good is fragile and rare. One of these rare cases she mentions is the fate of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews, who were saved from extermination in the death camps during WWII. Arendt confesses that she does not know what to make of all this: "I know of no attempt to explain the conduct of the Bulgarian people, which is unique in the belt of mixed populations."¹

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