ION ANTONESCU, ROMANIAN GENERAL IN WW II
After World War I, Antonescu served as military attaché in Paris and in London and, in 1934, as chief of the Romanian general staff. Named minister of defense in 1937, he retained office with the establishment of King Carol II’s corporatist dictatorship (1938), only to be dismissed after a few weeks as a sympathizer of the principal Romanian fascist group, the Iron Guard. On the domestic front, he was an anticommunist and an anti-Semit...
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