Bulgaria joined the Axis in 1941 as there was a 600,000 German army across the Danube in Romania. As a result Bulgaria declared war on Britain, the USA, and the USSR. When the Red Army entered NorthEastern Bulgaria in autumn of 1944, there was a millitary coup overnight and a new government was established that declared war on Germany while we were still technically at war with the other Great Powers. The German Army was already withdrawing from Bulgaria when the Red Army entered, but the Bulgarian Army was ordered to attack whatever German forces were left. My paternal great grandfather enlisted as a volunteer and fought the Germans all the way to Drava River in Hungary. My great great grandfather fought in WW1 against the Greeks, French and the English in Macedonia and Albania.