 Throughout the Bulgarian occupation zone, Bulgarian policy was that of extermination, expulsion and ethnic cleansing, aiming to forcibly Bulgarize or expel (or even kill) the rest of the Greeks.A massive Bulgarization campaign was launched, which saw all Greek officials (mayors, landowners, industrialists, school-teachers, judges, lawyers, priests, Hellenic Gendarmerie officers) deported.A ban was placed on the use of the Greek language, the names of towns and places changed to the forms traditional in Bulgarian.