According to the treaty both states agreed not to enter in an alliance against the other state, to follow policy of friendship and to help each other. According to Annex 2 Germany guaranteed "with all its efforts the political independence and the territorial integrity of Bulgaria... against every attack or claim from any country." Bulgaria agreed to help Germany with its whole army in case "Germany is attacked without reason by a country bordering with Bulgaria." The treaty was for 5 years and was to be secret until the official entering of Bulgaria in the war.