[Cz-L] Hitler's Forgotten Ally - Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940-1944

Czernowitzers...

Save $ 130.00 by downloading the PDF edition of Dennis Deletant's book "Hitler's Forgotten Ally - Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940-1944" from our ehpes.com Blog

http://ehpes.com/blog1/2014/03/05/hitlers-forgotten-ally-ion-antonescu-and-his-regime-romania-1940-1944/

Shortlink: http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=7484

but please take your time to read it, to track the development of Antisemitism in Romania, to comprehend Ion Antonescu's rise and fall and to learn on the tragic fate of our ancestors. The Royal Family and several Romanian politicians - not too many - were horrified by the brutality of the anti-Jewish measures:

"Through these methods, unfamiliar in civilized countries, and totally alien to the spiritual structure of the Romanian people in this province, which has been brought up over the last 150 years to respect the law and in the most profound public morality [...] the Romanians have been condemned to witness how hundreds and thousands of Jews, most of them personal acquaintances alongside whom they had lived their whole lives, were led through the streets of Cernauti on Sunday mornings, while the church bells were ringing the summons to the holy mass, in convoys flanked by armed police and soldiers, carrying on their backs their entire fortune, calling out and shouting in their pitiful desperation [...]"

This quotation (see p. 161-165) comes from a memorandum dated July 14, 1942, addressed to the Romanian government erroneously attributed by Dennis Deletant to Traian Popovici. As a matter of fact, this enlightening memorandum is an act of resistance, drafted by Dori Popovici, Traian Popovici's uncle. Despite small inaccurancies, Dennis Deletant's book

http://us.macmillan.com/hitlersforgottenally/DennisDeletant

http://www.humanitas.ro/humanitas/aliatul-uitat-al-lui-hitler-ion-antonescu-si-regimul-sau-1940-1944

is a most worthwhile reading.

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands
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