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Bulgaria - wayward ally of the Third Reich

Letter from P. Gruev to P. Draganov about the meetings of Minister of Interior and Religious Denominations Ivan Popov with Dr. Clodius regarding the Bulgarian administration of Macedonia. Sofia, May 31st, 1941

Central National Archives,

Fund 3K, Inventory 12, Record Unit 1682, Sheet 1


The Holy Synod Prime Minister Bogdan Filov signing the Protocol for Bulgaria’s joining the Tripartite Pact.

Vienna, March 1st, 1940

Central National Archives, Library


The Protocol for Bulgaria’s joining the Tripartite Pact.

Vienna, March 1st, 1941
Central National Archives,

Fund 250B, Inventory 1, Record Unit 48


The bridge over the Danube used by the German army to enter Bulgaria from Rumania.

March 1941
Central National Archives, Library
 

Bulgarian army advancing into Macedonia.

Strumitsa, April 26th, 1941

Central National Archives,

Fund 3K, Inventory 15, Record Unit 184, Sheets 11, 24

Prime Minister Bogdan Filov signed on March 1st, 1941, the agreement whereby Bulgaria joined the Tripartite Pact, and German army entered the country. On April 19th and 20th Germany allowed Bulgarian forces to invade Vardar Macedonia and Aegean Thrace, however, those territories did not become integral parts of the Bulgarian State by virtue of this act. Unlike the Kraiova Treaty for the annexation of Southern Dobroudja, the Clodius-Popov Treaty makes it evident that the Bulgarian government undertook only those obligations which ensured the rights of the Germans in the occupied Macedonia, Thrace, and Moravsko. No mention is made of clauses ceding those territories to Bulgaria, the conditions upon which the occupation is going to take place, Bulgaria’s rights to those territories etc., other than that such would be agreed after the end of the war. Until then the Bulgarian government was only going to conduct the administration of the so called New Territories.

The Clodius-Popov Treaty for the annexation of the territory of Vardar Macedonia and Aegean Thrace to Bulgaria.

April 17th, 1941
Central National Archives,

Fund 250-B, Inventory 1, Record Unit 48, Sheets 13, 14

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