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After April 1944, the Soviets increased pressure on Bulgaria to abandon the Axis alliance. [4] Bulgaria had maintained diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union while being a member of the Axis Powers. Bulgaria's antisemitic "Law for the Protection of the Nation", based on the German race laws.
Simeon II was Tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 until 1946, was underage and did not have any power. Kyril, Prince (knyaz) of Bulgaria, head of the regency council, 1943–44. Bogdan Filov, prime minister, 1940–43, member of the regency council, 1943–44. Dobri Bozhilov, prime minister, 1943–44. Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov was prime minister in 1944 ...
The Axis powers, [nb 1] originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis [1] and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan. The Axis were united in their far-right positions and general opposition to ...
1)) was formed in World War II when Bulgaria left the Axis powers and joined the Allies in September 1944. Hitler hoped to raise two divisions of SS volunteers from among Bulgarians to fight on the side of Nazi Germany, but the Soviet advance into Bulgaria meant this never materialized. [1]
According to Hermann Neubacher, Germany's special envoy to the Balkans, Bulgaria's relation to the Axis powers was completely settled at that meeting. On 23 November, however, the Bulgarian ambassador in Berlin, Peter Draganov , informed the Germans that while Bulgaria had agreed in principle to join the pact, it wished to delay its signing for ...
The invading Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Hungary) occupied and dismembered the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. By cobbling together Bosnia and Herzegovina , some parts of Croatia , and Syrmia , the " Independent State of Croatia " ( Nezavisna Država Hrvatska , NDH) was created by Germany and Italy .
Bulgaria was restored to its borders of 1 January 1941, returning Vardar Macedonia to Yugoslavia and Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace to Greece, but keeping Southern Dobruja per the Treaty of Craiova, leaving Bulgaria as the only former Axis power to keep territory that was gained during the Second World War. [6]
Bulgarian partisans enter Sofia on 9 September. Bulgaria was in a precarious situation, still in the sphere of Nazi Germany's influence (as a former member of the Axis powers, with German troops in the country despite the declared Bulgarian neutrality 15 days earlier), but under threat of war with the leading military power of that time, the Soviet Union (the USSR had declared war on the ...