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Events from the year 1940 in Romania. Incumbents. King: Carol II (until September 6), then Michael; Prime Minister: Gheorghe Tătărescu (until 4 July).
Antonescu and Adolf Hitler at the Führerbau in Munich (June 1941).. In the immediate wake of the loss of Northern Transylvania, on 4 September 1940, the Iron Guard (led by Horia Sima) and General (later Marshal) Ion Antonescu united to form the "National Legionary State", which forced the abdication of Carol II in favor of his 19-year-old son Michael.
Romanian members of the Iron Guard, arrested by the Army after the pogrom and anti-government rebellion Romanian and German soldiers standing in front of several R35 tanks During the days of the rebellion, Antonescu avoided direct confrontation with the Legionnaires but brought military units, including 100 tanks , into Bucharest from other cities.
Though the Iron Guard had been in the Romanian Government since 28 June 1940, on 14 September it achieved dominance, leading to the proclamation of the National Legionary State. On 27 September 1940, Romania withdrew from the Balkan Pact. On 8 October, Nazi German troops began crossing into Romania, and soon numbered over 500,000.
On the other hand, by early August 1940, between 112,000 and 149,974 people had left the other territories of Romania for the Soviet-ruled Bessarabia. That figure comprised Romanians of the region but also included Jews , both from Bessarabia and from the Old Kingdom , who wanted to escape the officially endorsed antisemitism in Romania.
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The results of the 1937 Romanian general election by county The logo of the National Christian Party A bust of Octavian Goga in Sighetu Marmației. The National Christian Party was created in 1935, from the merger between Octavian Goga's National Agrarian Party and Alexandru C. Cuza's National Christian Defense League.
The Romanian People's Tribunals were conducted in 1946 and a total of 57 people were tried for the Iași pogroms: eight from the higher military echelons, the prefect of Iași county and the mayor of Iași, four military figures, 21 civilians and 22 gendarmes. One hundred sixty-five witnesses, mostly survivors of the pogrom, were called to the ...