A Romanian mountain soldier in Curtea de Argeş on 1 December 1998.
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Historian of the Romanian Army in WW2. Works at US Army Center of Military History.
Romania marks the National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust. The date refers to the start of deportations of Jews, survivors of waves of atrocities by Romanian troops & local civilians plus German soldiers & SS-men, from Bessarabia & Bukovina to Transnistria 85 years ago today.
A Romanian officer appears to upbraid a peasant who has just turned over a horse to a requisition center in Iaşi in fall 1944. Note the peasant's bare feet & the officer's ring.
A chart of royal ciphers on the epaulettes of soldiers in certain elite units in the Romanian Army from 1914 to 1930 including those of Nicholas II (of Russia), Elisabeta, Carol I, Ferdinand I, Marie, Alexander I (of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes), & Mihai I.
Romanian mountain troops pose for the camera while training at Săcele, near Braşov, in 1943.
A baccalaureate diploma from the Saints Peter & Paul High School in Ploeşti from 1943.
A Romanian family circa 1940. The father wears a Commemorative Cross of the 1916-1918 War.
King Carol I (left), Crown Prince Ferdinand (right), & Prince Carol (center) at the pontoon bridge raised by the Romanian Army over the Danube River at Nikopol during the Second Balkan War in 1913.
"I swear to be faithful to the King & the interests of my Country." A copy of the new oath taken by Romanian soldiers after King Mihai I removed Marshal Antonescu from power on 23 August 1944.
King Mihai I of Romania having an Easter meal with soldiers in 1941.
Romanian mountain troops making an advance for the camera in WW2.
Romanian police officers in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during WW2.
A German convoy halts in front of the Romanian Military Academy in Bucharest in 1941. The German Army Mission in Romania received office space in the building for its headquarters.
Can you spot these Romanian soldiers in the Tunari Forest, just north of Bucharest, in 1997? 😉
The officers of the No. 11 Siret Infantry Regiment, an infantry unit based in Galați, circa 1900.
"Who is afraid of peace?" A leaflet dropped on Romania in summer 1944 saying only the Germans didn't want the war to end with quotes from Molotov claiming the USSR had no designs on Romania & FDR saying only guilty leaders will face punishment. Note the little RAF & USAAF planes.
The administrators, faculty, & graduates of the Timişoara Israelite Confession High School for the academic year of 1941-1942.
A team of the 1st Roads Battalion of the 141st Jewish Labor Detachment performing forced labor for the Romanian Army near Predeal in 1944.
The cover of *Soldier Notebook*, written by Alexandru Raicu & illustrated by Nicolae Brana, published in Romania in 1942.
