For 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 ago.
Said Radio Sofia of Prince Cyril: "At last he took the only place he deserved to have in our country—he faced a national court. He is Cyril Coburg-Gotha,* a driver, motorcyclist, adventurer, spy and son of Ferdinand [Bulgaria's World War I Tsar] ... a man who . . . calls himself a 'Bulgarian,'...
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