Why did Axis countries not under Nazi control murder their Jews?

Answer 1

Which countries are you thinking of?

Countries like Romania and Bulgaria and more specifically Slovakia.

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Romania had a long history of rabid antisemitism steeped in superfical religiosity, but Bulgaria in fact claims that it refused to hand over its own citizens to the Nazis. Slovakia was a German puppet state from 1939-44 with very little autonomy, and like most Catholic countries in Eastern Central Europe it was extremely antisemititic, believing that (most of) the Jews were Communists, and that Communism was a specifically Jewish ideology. Much the same is true of Croatia. In the period c. 1918 onwards the Catholic church was haunted by the spectre of Bolshevism.

Incidentally, Slovakia was the only country in Europe that went so far as to pay(!) the Germans to remove its Jews.

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Bulgaria surrendered 11 384 Jews to the Nazis, these were comprised of refugees and Jews who lived in the territories gained during the war. In doing so they 'saved' the 50 000 Jews from 'Old' Bulgaria.