The unforeseen defection: Romania's disengagement from the final solution
Abstract: A Romania free of Jews and other ethnic and religious minorities was for Ion Antonescu and his regime a major political aspiration. As a result, some three hundred thousands Romanian and Ukrainian Jews died along the road. Yet another three hundred thousands survived the war as Romania's government decided at a certain moment to fail its ally standards and radical policy, and disengage with the Final Solution. The decision was motivated less by humanitarianism and more by domestic and international protests and interventions, massive bribe, and a rapidly changing military and political situation. From late 1942 onward, in Romania, political and military tactics and calculation gradually downplayed radical, eliminationist anti-Semitism, without totally eradicating it. Romania’s abrupt and unforeseen defection took the Germans by surprise. Nazi officials never gave up hope, continued to sway, pressure and, finally, even threaten the Romanians to hand over their Jews, and advised the
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Englisch
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begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review ; 7 (2007) 4 ; 879-902
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Geschichte Europas
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Mannheim
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2007
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Chioveanu, Mihai
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56137-3
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- Chioveanu, Mihai
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- 2007
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