Bulgaria remains relatively untouched by military operations until the summer of 1943, when Allied bombers begin to attack rail and industrial centers.

The government has thus far complied with German requests to deport the Jews of the occupied territories to the concentration camp at Treblinka, but Tsar Boris cancels orders for the deportation of the rest of Bulgaria's Jews in the face of protests led by prominent political figures and Metropolitan Stefan, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox church.