Word: bulgaria
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...German-occupied Europe, only Italy and Hungary had not carried anti-Semitism to the point of delivering up their Jews to the mass slaughter. But there were thousands of prospective victims in these countries. Today they might still be saved, and others too - in Rumania and Bulgaria, possibly even in other occupied nations...
...Bulgaria. Some 25,000 arrests, 36 executions reportedly followed open insurrection and revolt. The insurgents were pro-Russian, many were proCommunist. The underground Communist newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo attracted enough notice to be frequently quoted in the Swedish press. Railroad and police stations were attacked. Telephone and telegraph communications between Bulgaria and all other countries were cut off for seven days. The unrest last week was attributed to reports that King Boris had agreed to send 20 divisions to help Hitler against Russia...
...Kaiser's Pour le Mérite and Order of the Iron Cross First Class; Hitler's Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Cross; Bulgaria's Order of St. Alexander; Yugoslavia's Order of the White Eagle; Luxembourg's Order of Adolphus of Nassau; Greece's Royal Order of the Redeemer; Italy's Order of St. Maurice & St. Lazare; Hungary's Cross of Merit; Finland's Order of the White Rose; Sweden's Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword; Denmark's Order of the Dannebrog...
...Rumanians' bitterness at these losses was heightened by the fact that Bulgaria, one of the two nations to which Rumania was forced by the Axis to cede territory, was not fighting Russia at all, and that the other, Hungary, has sent fewer than 150,000 troops to fight Russia...
After almost two years in Berlin, Olda and her mother were sent through Vienna, Bulgaria, Turkey and Syria to Palestine. There Olda's mother was put under medical care. Something impelled Olda to go straight on to Cairo...