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Romanian Nazi collaborators: Executed Romanian Nazi collaborators, Ion Antonescu, Radu Lecca, George Georgescu, Valerian Trifa, Nicolae Malaxa - Softcover
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Executed Romanian Nazi collaborators, Ion Antonescu, Radu Lecca, George Georgescu, Valerian Trifa, Nicolae Malaxa, Ion Sân-Giorgiu, Mihai Antonescu, Constantin Petrovicescu, Horia Sima. Excerpt: Ion Victor Antonescu (Romanian pronunciation: ; June 15, 1882 - June 1, 1946) was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships. A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants' revolt and the World War I Romanian Campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with the far right and fascist National Christian and Iron Guard groups for much of the interwar period. He was a military attaché to France and later Chief of the General Staff, briefly serving as Defense Minister in the National Christian cabinet of Octavian Goga. During the late 1930s, his political stance brought him into conflict with King Carol II and led to his detainment. Antonescu nevertheless rose to political prominence during the political crisis of 1940, and established the National Legionary State, an uneasy partnership with the Iron Guard's leader Horia Sima. After entering Romania into an alliance with Nazi Germany and the Axis and ensuring Adolf Hitler's confidence, he eliminated the Guard during the Legionary Rebellion of 1941. In addition to leadership of the executive, he assumed the offices of Foreign Affairs and Defense Minister. Soon after Romania joined the Axis in Operation Barbarossa, recovering Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Antonescu also became Marshal of Romania. An atypical figure among Holocaust perpetrators, Antonescu enforced policies independently responsible for the deaths of as many as 400,000 people, most of them Bessarabian, Ukrainian and Romanian Jews, as wel...
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- PublisherBooks LLC, Wiki Series
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1155681118
- ISBN 13 9781155681115
- BindingTapa blanda
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages40
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