Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1999) 312-328
Keywords:
Antonescu, Ion,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
After tracing Antonescu's career, describes the crimes against Jews committed by the Romanian army and security forces, sometimes in cooperation with German Einsatzgruppen, during the Second World War: the pogrom in Iaşi, the massacres in Bessarabia and Bukovina, the deportations to Transnistria, and the massacre in Odessa. Even where some of these atrocities were initiated by the army, as in Iaşi and Odessa, it was Antonescu who gave orders to continue and intensify them. After the war, he was tried and executed for a wide range of war crimes, including the Odessa massacre. After the fall of Ceauşescu, Romanian revisionist historians, as well as prominent officers in the army and security services, promoting the rehabilitation of Antonescu as part of a campaign against national minorities, revived the allegations of Jewish collaboration with the enemy with which Antonescu justified his actions against them.
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