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...Germans had gone. But there was still terror in Sofia-this time in the name of justice. Nearly 400 former members of four successive Bulgarian governments were being tried before two "People's Courts...
...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...
...Bulgarian listeners Radio Sofia broadcast a more sensational side of the trials (see above). One of the defendants was a former Regent, Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III, who died mysteriously after a command visit with Adolf Hitler a year and a half...
Suddenly a long-missing Bulgarian ghost popped up-Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, onetime organizer of Bulgarian workers, onetime Communist International agent in Germany, onetime hero of the Reichstag fire trial, onetime secretary of the Communist International. In a letter to Sofia's Communist Rabotnitchesko Delo, Dimitrov welcomed Bulgarian troops to the side of the Red Army. Reported PM's Correspondent M. W. Fodor: "The letter has caused some uneasiness among Balkan nationals...
Through Istanbul's blacked-out station two plain clothesmen marched a big-nosed, big-mustached man. They put him forcibly aboard the Sofia express. He was Peter Grabowsky, Minister of the Interior and Bulgaria's No. 1 Jew baiter in Premier Filov's cabinet. Ten days before, he had arrived in Turkey with forged identification papers. U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt urged the Turks to send him back where death or jail await...