Bulgarian Action Committees

[3] They were also encouraged by the friendly relations between Nazi Germany and Bulgaria, and by the hope that after the German Army swept through the Bulgarian one succeed it.

The Serbs in authority positions had fled most of the region, not out of fear of the Germans, but primarily out of terror from their local collaborators.

The Executive Committee of the organization was headed by: Stefan Stefanov from Kratovo, president, Spiro Kitinchev from Skopje, vice-president, and Vasil Hadzhikimov from Štip (Novo selo), secretary.

In Veles Bulgarian Action Committees received the active support by popular communist functionaries as Panko Brashnarov.

[6] When the Yugoslav rule was replaced by German military administration, and then finally by Bulgarian occupation, these goals were realized.