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...Economist analyzed Nazi plans. "The Germans clearly expect an onslaught from the southeast. For months now defense workers have been . . . fortifying the Greek coasts and some of the islands. ... In Bulgaria the mountain passes have recently been fortified. . . . [The Nazi] aim in the Balkans must be to defend Rumania for its oil and to prevent a break-through into the great plain of Central Europe. . . . The Germans can hope that the Allies, after exhausting themselves in expensive attacks on the outposts, would have to face a heavy counteroffensive from the air and heavily mechanized armies operating from well prepared...
...Hard Axis Shell. If the Allies launch an offensive toward the Balkans they will find some tough going at the main line of defense. The Germans have not been idle. Since their fiasco in Tunisia, they have poured troops into Greece and Bulgaria and have greatly strengthened their fortifications. Allied estimates are that the Germans have 60 divisions in the Balkans, commanded by such outstanding men as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Air Chief of the Mediterranean; General Alexander Löhr, Commander of Balkan land forces. Top commander in the area was reported to be Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther...
...East. In the Middle East, in Syria and Iraq and Persia, men in the British Ninth and Tenth Armies are also waiting. There, too, are the Poles of the Carpathian Brigade, who after the defeat of Poland sifted through the Carpathian Mountains, or through Russia or Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey and finally into the Middle East. Some of them have already fought with the Eighth Army. Now they are part of the new Polish army in Iraq. After nearly four years, they are eager for the battle to begin...
...Germany Ready? In the Balkans Germany is hurrying to complete defense lines against an expected Allied onslaught. The Germans have three major defense lines in southeastern Europe. One line starts on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, curves south along the ragged border of Turkey to Alexandroupolis and Salonika, then cuts across Greece to Corfu and the Adriatic Sea. The second starts at the mouth of the Danube, runs up to Vienna and the Alps. The third follows the Danube to Vienna, then runs along the northern spur of the Carpathians to the main German defense lines in Poland...
From several neutral sources in Europe came a story that the Germans were about ready to get rid of Boris (his father, Ferdinand I, abdicated in 1918, just after Bulgaria surrendered to the Allies). According to this account, Boris knew all about the plot and has allowed his police to protect the Communists who recently assassinated four prominent pro-Nazis in Sofia. The supporting facts: 1) although Boris' police made a great show of placing Sofia in a state of siege, and searched many houses, the assassins were not arrested; 2) the Bulgarian people have made it abundantly clear...