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The Legionnaires held mass drafts at neighboring villages, and masses of peasants flooded the streets of Bucharest, answering the call to defend the country against the Jews and Freemasons. The Legionnaires took over gas stations and tankers, and used burning oil cans as weapons against the soldiers. Only 15 loyal officers remained with ...
On 20 January 1941, the Iron Guard attempted a coup, combined with a pogrom against the Jews of Bucharest. Within four days, Antonescu had successfully suppressed the coup, and the Iron Guard was forced out of the government. Horia Sima and many other Legionnaires took refuge in Nazi Germany, while others were imprisoned. Antonescu formally ...
At the start of 1941, in Bucharest alone, the Legionnaires had 5,000 guns (rifles, revolvers and machine guns) as well as numerous hand grenades. [56] Included in their small arms was the MP28/II submachine-gun supplied by Himmler's SD . [ 57 ]
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.
The legionnaires hated Lupescu, so when Grosu was forced to resign in 1936, following corruption charges, they naturally sided with him. [28] Historian Oliver Jens Schmitt nuances Grosu's relations with the Royal Palace. He points out that the Metropolitan had both enemies and friends in the King's inner circle; this made Codreanu hesitate ...
Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar or Corpul Muncitorilor Legionari (CML, the Legionary Worker Corps or Legionary Workers' Corps) was a fascist association of workers in Romania, created inside the Iron Guard (which was originally known as the Legionary Movement) and having a rigid hierarchical structure.
[9]: 156–7 Due to a lack of manpower (only 500 of the intended 1,000 Legionnaires participated) the coup was not carried out as planned — Legionnaires and police officers exchanged gunfire and clashed in centres such as Brașov, Constanța and Bucharest, and by the end of the day most Legionnaires had surrendered. Although the coup was ...
The Jilava massacre [1] took place during the night of November 26, 1940, at Jilava Prison, near Bucharest, Romania.Sixty-four political detainees were killed by the Iron Guard (Legion), with further high-profile assassinations in the immediate aftermath.