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The Iron Guard was the only Fascist movement outside Germany and Italy to come to power without foreign assistance. [54] [55] Once in power, from 14 September 1940 until 21 January 1941, the Legion ratcheted up the level of already harsh anti-Semitic legislation and pursued, with impunity, a campaign of pogroms and political assassinations.
As the political establishment's main branches welcomed the news of Codreanu's sentencing, the Iron Guard organized a retaliation attack targeting the National Peasant Party's Virgil Madgearu, who had become known for expressing his opposition to the movement's extremism (Madgearu managed to escape the violence unharmed).
Around 9,000 members of the Legionnaires' movement were sentenced to prison. The Legionnaires who led the antisemitic movement in Romania had fallen and never regained power. However, the movement continued even without them, although it was set back for a while, as the atrocities of the Bucharest pogrom gradually became known to the Romanian ...
Prince Alexandru Cantacuzino was born in 1901 in the commune of Ciocănești, Ilfov County, in the Ghica-Cantacuzino mansion, today a historical monument. [2] He was a descendant of the Greek family of Cantacuzino, a noble family active in the 17th to 19th centuries in current-day Romania (then Wallachia, Moldavia, and the Kingdom of Romania).
The Romanian Orthodox Christian Students' Association, ASCOR, is a youth organization with several thousand members. Its monthly publication Schimbarea la față ("The Transfiguration") occasionally featured quotes of inter-war Iron Guard authors and articles celebrating the heroism of inter-war youths. Cecilie Endresen notes that this could ...
A movement within the Iron Guard soon arose to clear the late Corneliu Zelea Codreanu of his treason charges, and his body was exhumed. [ 24 ] Both Sima and Antonescu were invited by the German government to Obersalzberg to meet with Adolf Hitler in order to mediate relations between the two Romanian leaders and to discuss German-Romanian ...
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.
The Kingdom of Romania was under Fascist rule from 1937 to 1944, under several successive governments. These were the National Christian Party between December 1937 and February 1938; the sole legal party from 1938 to 1940, the National Renaissance Front; the Iron Guard between September 1940 and January 1941; and the dictatorship of Ion Antonescu from 1940 to 1944.