Romanian recovery of Bessarabia and wartime administration Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
antonescu s order romanian army cross river prut , liberate bessarabia russian occupation, 22 june 1941
on june 22, 1941, romania participated alongside hungary, , italy on side of axis powers in german invasion of soviet union, in order recover bessarabia , bukovina. accomplished july 26, 1941.
the king michael of romania, mother helen, , mihai antonescu joined opening ceremony of monumental liberation tower in ghidighici, on november 1, 1942.
on july 27, 1941, despite disagreement political parties, romania s military dictator ion antonescu ordered romanian army continue war eastward proper soviet territory fight @ odessa, crimea, kharkov, stalingrad , caucasus. between late 1941 , 1944, romania occupied , administered region between dniester , southern bug rivers, known transnistria, , sent expedition troops several different areas support german advance further ussr.
military ordinance forbidding use of foreign languages , wearing of russian caps in bessarabia, 15 november 1941
on backdrop of increased anti-semitism in romania in late 1930s, government of ion antonescu officially adopted myth of jewish bolshevism, making jews responsible territorial losses romania suffered during summer of 1940. results, government, in agreement germany, embarked in campaign cleanse recaptured territories massively deporting and/or killing jews of bukovina , bessarabia did not flee interior of soviet union before romania regained territory in july 1941. in 1941, between 45,000 , 60,000 jews killed in bessarabia , bukovina romanian , german armies. surviving jews gathered in temporary ghettos , 154,449 170,737 deported transnistria; 49,927 of them still alive on september 16, 1943. 19,475 jews of regions of bukovina , of dorohoi county survived in these territories in 1941-1944 without being deported, of them in cernăuți. romanian gendarmerie (riot police) units participated, along german troops , local militias, in destruction of jewish community in transnistria, murdering between 115,000 , 180,000 local jews.(see history of jews in moldova#the holocaust).
jews being deported concentration camps romanian army
in 1941-1944, many young male inhabitants of bessarabia , northern bukovina recruited romanian army. february august 1944, hostilities took place in region, romanians attempted hold territory being overrun soviet union. in total, during world war ii, romanian army has lost 475,070 people on eastern front, of 245,388 killed in action, disappeared, or died in hospitals or non-battle circumstances, , 229,682 (according soviet archival documents) taken prisoners of war red army. of latter, 187,367 counted romanian pows in nkvd camps (on april 22, 1956, 54,612 counted died in captivity, , 132,755 freshly released), 27,800 counted romanians released front-levels of soviet army, while 14,515 moldovans released front-levels of soviet army.
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