LIST OF CATHOLIC AXIS WORLD WAR 2 LEADERS PART 2

HERE IS PART 2 OF CATHOLIC WORLD WAR 2 LEADER LIST. Boris III was the Tsar from 1918 until his death in 1943. Simeon II was Tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 until 1946, was underage and did not have any power. Kyril, Prince (knyaz) of Bulgaria, head of the regency council, 1943–44. Bogdan Filov, prime minister, 1940–43, member of the regency council, 1943–44. Dobri Bozhilov, prime minister, 1943–44. Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov was prime minister in 1944. He attempted to pull Bulgaria out of the war and declare neutrality. Konstantin Muraviev, prime minister, 1944.Bulgarian Agrarian National Union. Kimon Georgiev, prime minister, 1944–46. Zveno Aleksandar Tsankov, prime minister of the Bulgarian government-in-exile. Nikola Mikhov was a lieutenant general, Minister of Defence of Bulgaria Constantine Lukasz was a lieutenant general, Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army Stoyan Stoyanov was the highest scoring Bulgarian fighter ace of the Royal Bulgarian Air Force with 14 victories. Ferdinand Kozovski was a lieutenant-general in the Bulgarian who served as the Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria from 1950–1965. Damyan Velchev was Fedor von Bock served as the commander of Army Group North during the Invasion of Poland in 1939 and commander of Army Group B during the Invasion of France in 1940. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, he was named commander of Army Group Center and commanded Operation Typhoon, the ultimately failed attempt to capture Moscow during the winter of 1941. His final command was that of Army Group South in 1942 before being dismissed by Hitler. He was killed by British aircraft on May 4, 1945. Albert Kesselring was a German Luftwaffe general. He served as commander of Luftflotte 2 for the early part of the war, commanding air campaigns in west and east, before being assigned as commander-in-chief of German forces in the Mediterranean, a position he would occupy for most of the war, commanding German forces in the defense of Italy. In March 1945, he became the last German commander-in-chief in the west. Gerd von Rundstedt was a Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) in the German army and held some of the highest field commands in all phases of the war. He commanded large formations during the invasion of Poland and Battle of France. During Operation Barbarossa, he was named commander of Army Group South. In 1942 he was appointed commander of OB West. He retained this command (with several interruptions) until his dismissal by Hitler in March 1945. Erich von Manstein is credited with the drawing up of the Ardennes invasion plan of France. In the Soviet campaign, he also conquered Sevastopol in 1942 and was then made Generalfeldmarschall and took command of Army Group South. A command he held until he was dismissed by Hitler in March, 1944. He is often considered one of the finest German strat Miklós Horthy was the supreme regent (head of state) from 1920 until 1944. László Bárdossy was his prime minister from 1941 until 1942. After World War II, Bárdossy was tried by a People’s Court in November 1945. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1946. Miklós Kállay was prime minister from 1942 until 1944. Döme Sztójay was prime minister from March until August 1944. Sztójay was captured by American troops and extradited to Hungary in October 1945, after which time he was tried by a Communist People’s Tribunal in Budapest. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1946. Géza Lakatos was a general in the Hungarian Army during World War II who served briefly as prime minister, under governor Miklós Horthy from August 29, 1944 until October 15 the same year. Ferenc Szálasi was the leader of the fascist Arrow Cross Party, the "Leader of the Hungarian Nation" (Nemzetvezető), and the prime Béla Miklós was acting as prime minister, at first in opposition, from 1944 to 1945. Károly Bartha was a colonel general, Minister of Defence. Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc Szombathelyi was a colonel general, chief of the General Staff. Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak Iván Hindy was a colonel-general in the Hungarian Army. He orchestrated the defence of Budapest. Hindy was captured by the Soviets On February 11, 1945, when he tried to escape just prior to the fall of the city on February 13. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1946. Gusztáv Jány was the commander of the Hungarian forces at the Battle of Stalingrad. Zoltán Szügyi was the commander of the Szent László Infantry Division. László Háry was the commander of the Hungarian Air Force. Elemér Gorondy-Novák was the commander of the Hungarian Third Army. Iran Imperial State of Iran (1941) Rezā Shāh Rezā Shāh was the Shah of Iran from 1925 until 1941. Rezā Shāh was a reformist who modernized Iran during his rule. During World War II, Rezā Shāh had a policy of neutrality, continuing relations with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and refusing to expel their citizens when requested to by the British. Fearing that Iran's oil would fal Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Iranian minister and diplomat. Fazlollah Zahedi was an Iranian general during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. Zahedi was named military governor of Khuzestan province, the hub of Iran's oil industry. When t