Ion Antonescu
Ion Antonescu was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. Having been responsible for facilitating the Holocaust in Romania, he was overthrown in 1944, before being tried for war crimes and executed two years later in 1946.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Pitești
- Educated at
- École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of the German Eagle🏆 Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross🏆 Order of Michael the Brave🏆 Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland🏆 Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Liberty
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Trending topics shown first"Be humane, be just and recognise that, over all ambitions, intrigues and hatred, there is the Motherland, the eternal of the people, and we always have to meet there, even though we disagree sometimes…"
"The principle is that what is Romanian we'll put in Bucovina: what is foreign, Ukrainian, etc. we'll put in camps and from there dispatch them to the Slavic countries. Gentlemen, you shall consider th…"
"I. Antonescu: „I'd like you to remove all Jews from Odesa immediately, because the resistence at Sevastopol makes us think that we can expect a landing at Odesa. I thought Sevastopol will fall earlier…"
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1882
Born
Birth1946
Died
Death
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