Word: bulgaria
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...idea of Festung Europa-a continent to be held everywhere, at any cost-was probably never much more than propaganda, and it began to fade months ago. There were reports that the Germans planned to leave most of Italy and Yugoslavia, all of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete and their Mediterranean islands outside their main line of continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other...
...east to match the western position in Italy. If they would, the Turks could rob the Germans of all the time that they now hope to gain by resistance in northern Italy and Yugoslavia. For, with a free entry through Turkey, the Allies could establish a front in Bulgaria, attack the Rumanian hinge of the inner fortress, deprive the Germans of Ploesti's oil, threaten their armies in southern Russia from the rear...
...train of the dead King and Dictator, who had bound his people to their second disastrous alliance with Germany, proceeded the titular and real rulers of Bulgaria: the boy King Simeon II, the royal family, the Cabinet of Germanophile Premier Bogdan Filoff and, not least, the representatives of Adolf Hitler-portly Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, stern Fleet Admiral Erich Raeder...
...Bulgaria was slated for a bigger role. Hungarian sources reported that Premier Filoff had hurried to a Berchtesgaden session with Adolf Hitler; he may also have seen his old acquaintance, Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. No one doubted that he would get Gestapo support to suppress Bulgaria's underground, anti-German, patriotic front. What the Führer needed above all was more manpower, more help from Bulgaria's Army to guard against a possible Turkish thrust and to stiffen Italian garrisons in Greece...
Died. King Boris of Bulgaria, 49, Hitler's puppet; of a bullet wound, heart trouble or fright...