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The number of legionnaires killed during the rebellion was approximately 200, [2] albeit Horia Sima would later claim there had been 800 legionnaire casualties. [3] After the rebellion was suppressed, Antonescu addressed the public on the radio, telling them "the truth", but never mentioning the pogrom.
A rebellion organized by the Iron Guard takes place in Bucharest. Later known as the Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom, it was a reaction to the decision made by Ion Antonescu to cut off the privileges of the Iron Guard. [citation needed] During the rebellion, 125 Jews and 30 army soldiers were killed. After order is restored, the ...
Bucharest pogrom: Legionnaires' rebellion 125 Jews and 30 soldiers Jews Europe: Bucharest, Hungary [note 37] 1941 Tykocin pogrom: 1,400–1,700 Jews Jews Europe: Poland [note 38] 1941 Jedwabne pogrom: 380 to 1,600 Jews Jews Europe: Poland [note 39] 1941 Farhud: 180 Jewish Iraqis Jews MENA: Iraq [note 40] 1941 Lviv pogroms: Thousands of Jews Jews
Although hostile to the Guard's new leader, Horia Sima, [4] [5] he became involved in the January 1941 confrontation between Sima's Legionnaires and Ion Antonescu.In early 1941, the conflict for power turned into an Iron Guard-led failed rebellion and a pogrom against the Jewish population in Bucharest where over one hundred Jews and Romanians were massacred.
Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum in Bucharest established. 1937 Scala Cinema opens. [20] Royal Palace built. [13] 1938 – Cașin Church built. 1940 Political unrest. [10] Germans in power. [13] November: 1940 Vrancea earthquake. [21] 1941 – January: Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom. 1944 Bombing of Bucharest in World War II ...
The suppression of the Rebellion also provided some data on the military equipment used by the Iron Guard, amounting to 5,000 firearms (revolvers, rifles and machine guns) and numerous grenades in Bucharest alone. [30] The Legion also possessed a small armored force of two armored police cars and two Malaxa UE armored tracked carriers. [31]
Bucharest witnessed the birth of three consecutive fascist regimes: after the one established by Carol II and his National Renaissance Front, the outbreak of World War II brought the National Legionary State and, after the bloody Iron Guard Rebellion of January 21–23 (which was accompanied by a major pogrom in the capital), the Ion Antonescu ...
In the Apuseni Mountains region of Transylvania, the most active group was led by Leon Șușman, a former member of the Iron Guard who had been sentenced for his participation in the Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom. The group mainly hid in the woods and acquired part of its armament from an Iron Guard band that the Germans ...