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Boris III of Bulgaria
Boris III was Tsar of Bulgaria from 1918, when his father Ferdinand abdicated after defeat in the First World War. From 1935 he ruled through a personal regime. He brought Bulgaria into the Axis in 1941 to regain Macedonia and Thrace, but refused to declare war on the Soviet Union or deport Bulgaria's own Jews. He died suddenly in 1943.
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