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Hitler's Forgotten Ally

A new book on a little-known chapter of Romanian history by Professor Dennis Deletant, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, has been published.

'Hitler's Forgotten Ally. Ion Antonescu and his Regime, Romania, 1940-1944' looks at the role of the totalitarian regime in Romania during the Second World War. Romania was an important ally of Nazi Germany in military terms, in terms of providing natural resources to Germany, and most disturbingly, in its contribution to German policies towards Jews and other minorities.

This part of Romanian history is not widely recognised among historians outside Eastern Europe, because no biography of Antonescu exists in a major European language. Professor Deletant wrote the book to provide detailed information on events during the war, a period about which knowledge has been patchy until now.

Professor Deletant was awarded a nine-month William Rosenzweig Family Fellowship to conduct research in the archives of the Advanced Center for Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in W

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Ion Antonescu

Conducător of Romania from 1940 to 1944

Ion Antonescu (; Romanian:[i'onantoˈnesku]^ⓘ; 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1882 – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. Having been responsible for facilitating the Holocaust in Romania, he was tried for war crimes and executed in 1946.

A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants' revolt and the World War I Romanian campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with far-right and fascist politics. He was a military attaché to France and later Chief of the General Staff, briefly serving as Defense Minister in the National Christian cabinet of Octavian Goga as well as the subsequent First Cristea cabinet, in which he also served as Air and Marine Minister. During the late 1930s, his political stance brought him into conflict with King Carol II and led to his detainment. Antonescu rose to political prominence during the political crisis