BULGARIA WITHIN
GESTAPO AND ASSASSINATIONS. (Rec. 12.50.) LONDON, Feb. 17. The British United Press correspondent at Ankara says: A higli Sofia police official was fatally shot this morning. After this incident, the Gestapo took over the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior, and the police. and cordoned off a large area of Sofia. .. The Bulgarian Government has disbanded for a “fortnight’s holiday, while the Cabinet drafts a law to send sixty thousand workers, to Germany, and also a decree imposing the death penalty for sabotage. It is now established that the victim of the assassination on February 12 was General Lukov, a former War Minister, not Lukasch, as cabled earlier. , “The Times’s” Ankara correspondent’ says: General Lukov was most prominent among the Bulgarian Nazis. His murder at a time when the Gestapo was completely in control of the police is considered to have been an unmistakeable sign of hatred and revolt against the Nazis, which is bristling throughout' the Balkans.”
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Grey River Argus, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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