Changes in Education in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace and Bulgarian National Policy in the Region During the Second World War
Changes in Education in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace and Bulgarian National Policy in the Region During the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: Bulgarian education policy in Northern Greece during the Second World War has been the subject of a few articles in Greek and Bulgarian historiography over the course of the past two decades. However, these inquiries were written more or less from the national points of view of the authors. In addition, some of these articles, for objective reasons, neglect to use some of the primary sources concerning the issue. This article attempts to cast a new light on the problem and to offer a new interpretation of some of the facts. It is based mainly on primary sources from the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and the Bulgarian authorities in Northern Greece during the war, as well as on relevant materials from Bulgarian pedagogical periodicals. This article mainly aims to describe the policy of the Bulgarian state in some of the lands occupied during the war as an example of the use of education in the forcible incorporation of territory where the majority of the population is of foreign origin. It does not intend to take sides in the dispute over the Macedonian issue with its historical, cultural and statistical arguments.

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