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Under the guns of the Red Army, Bulgarian justice moved swiftly. In Sofia the trials of the war criminals ended with a bang-of rifles. Hardly had the "People's Courts" pronounced sentence on the "enemies of the people" for "dragging" Bulgaria into war than the firing squads lined up. In the jampacked square before Sofia's Palace of Justice a crowd of 150,000 wildly cheered the news that the 100 death sentences were "without appeal," would be carried out "immediately." The condemned had just time to make brief preparation for eternity before they were sent there...
Already the Sofia radio reported that Moscow's Free Germany Committee was preparing to move into East Prussia on the heels of the Russian troops. There was talk, still unconfirmed, of a Provisional German Government. Reported Sofia radio: its head would be Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, captured commander of Germany's Stalingrad armies, who last year joined the Free Germany Committee. Over the Sofia radio he was calling upon the Wehrmacht to end the German ordeal by surrendering to the Russians. Meanwhile ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) broadcast that the first Russian governor of occupied Germany...
...Russian-controlled Sofia radio, meanwhile, broadcast an appeal to ELAS to try its hostages as "war criminals," enemies of the people of Athens. It also launched a drive for an autonomous Macedonia (which might include Greece's No. 2 port of Salonika), with a capital at Skoplje-which is in Yugoslavia...
Said Radio Sofia of Prince Cyril: "At last he took the only place he deserved to have in our country-he faced a national court. He is Cyril Coburg-Gotha,* a driver, motorcyclist, adventurer, spy and son of Ferdinand [Bulgaria's World War I Tsar] ... a man who . . . calls himself a 'Bulgarian,' and the Bulgarians answer with sarcastic laughter...
...People's Court learned that he had also been a mystic. Yordan Lutcheff, a royal councilor who was also on trial, reported that Boris had been a member of the secret sun-worshipping sect of Dunovists. Founded 25 years ago by a Professor Dunov, who died in Sofia last week, the sect numbers some 700 men & women. Each summer the Dunovists climb Mount Musala, Bulgaria's highest mountain, in order to be nearer the sun. They also chant hymns to the sun every morning, preach human regeneration by living close to nature...