A one-hour television documentary, with Yiddish commentary, has been prepared here by a Jewish television producer, for broadcast soon on the Bulgarian Television Network, it was announced today. The program is entitled “The Reichstag Fire,” and recalls the burning of the German Parliament building in Berlin, in 1933, for which the Hitler Government blamed the Communists, although the conflagration had been arranged by the Nazis as a provocation. The chief defendant falsely charged by the Nazis with blame for the fire was a Bulgarian Communist then living in Germany.
Produced by Niuma Belagowski, in association with some prominent Bulgarian journalists, the program features among others Josef Wulf, historian and West Berlin correspondent of The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and author most recently of “The SS State.” Mr. Wulf voiced his commentary in Yiddish on the steps of the burned-out Reichstag, declaring that that conflagration was “the beginning” of the Nazi rule. “The rest,” he said, “followed, culminating in Auschwitz.”
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