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...Three former Regents: Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III and uncle of the boy King Simeon II; ex-Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian expansionist, who preferred making history to teaching it; Lieut. General Nikola Mikhoff, who had held the mistaken belief that the German Army was invincible...
...court, which sat in the big hall of the University of Sofia, former deputies were indicted for supporting pro-fascist governments. At the other, which sat in the big courtroom of the Palace of Justice, regents, royal councilors and ministers, among them ex-Premiers Bogdan Filoff, Ivan Bagrianoff and Konstantin Muravieff, were charged with "crimes against the Bulgarian people." Among the crimes: signing the Three-Power [Axis] Pact, sending Bulgarian armies against Yugoslavia and Greece, declaring war against the U.S. and Britain, abolishing the people's rights and passing anti-Semitic laws. Among the accusers: the ghosts of hundreds...
...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...
...regency would be established. The Filoff government announced the ascension of Boris' son, six-year-old Simeon II. The Bulgarian Army swore fealty to the boy King. Premier Filoff, according to Berlin's radio, summoned the Sobranye to approve a regency...