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Bulgaria itself was crawling with Nazi officers in civilian clothes, studying railway facilities, bridges, roads. On these roads there presently blossomed new, brightly painted signs-in German. Nazi General Staff officers, their boots glistening black under their raincoats, suddenly turned up at Sofia's best hotel. Later they stood at the hotel windows and stared at a mob of student patriots who were shouting slogans against Nazi occupation. At Sofia's biggest theatre Nazi diplomats gave a party for Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff and his Cabinet. What the Nazis showed their guests were films of Hitler...
Bulgaria's thousands of Soviet Russian sympathizers were being told by grapevine to "resist the German invasion by noncooperation propaganda, but not by force." But it seemed that things would go hard for any resisters. Right after the Nazi officers arrived in Sofia the police arrested 50 Communistic leaders...
...independent, assertive Minister to Bulgaria is very fond of night life, and one night last week he went to a café in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia. The conditions of World War II have often reminded the Minister of World War I, when he was a U. S. Navy lieutenant and got the Navy Cross for risking his life to save the crew of his burning submarine chaser. In the Sofia cafe last week the Minister felt reminiscent and asked the band to play Tipperary. It did so, and many people sang with the Minister. But there were also...
...native of Bulgaria may I be allowed to voice a protest against "The Balkan Touch," TIME, Feb. 3 [describing the disappearance of Wild Bill Donovan's wallet in Sofia...
...midst of terrible fear of being overrun by the Nazi Army, looked about and began to realize that it was already overrun. There were not many Germans in Bulgaria, probably not more than 5,000. But Bulgarians thought they saw them everywhere. They saw Germans in ski clothes leave Sofia hotels early every morning in automobiles. They saw Germans in civilian overcoats driving through the countryside by the truckload. They saw Germans shoring up bridges, building up the shoulders of highways, stocking airfields with gasoline...