The top photo really suggests some big questions. Dated April 1944, it looks like Stara Zagora was spared the ravages of World War 2. The city looks untouched and the two gentlemen in uniforms seem rather happy and self satisfied. In April of 1944, Bulgaria was still an ally of Germany, but the Soviet army was just five months away from tossing out the Germans as well as the fascist government. Were these two young men happy to be living in a Nazi state or were they looking forward to liberation, as short-lived as that turned out to be? Of course, they may have been thinking about the two ladies in the second photo. I almost didn't scan the back of the second photo, but I thought it might be a local way of writing a date. February 9, 1942, or perhaps September 2, 1942. Then again it might be a notation that only the owner of this album could understand.
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