The execution of Marshall Ion Antonescu, former dictator of Romania (1940-1944) at the Fort Jilava prison in a suburb of Bucharest. He was executed on !st June 1946 along with three others: Mihai Antonescu (the former vice-president and minister of foreign affairs), Gheorge Alexianu (former governor of Transnistria), and General Vasiliu (former deputy minister of interior affairs and head of the gendarmerie). Three weeks after gaining power Ion Antonescu said that solving the "Jewish Question" was his pressing concern, and that he considered himself "haunted" by the large Jewish presence
The execution of Marshall Ion Antonescu, former dictator of Romania (1940-1944) at the Fort Jilava prison in a suburb of Bucharest. He was executed on !st June 1946 along with three others: Mihai Antonescu (the former vice-president and minister of foreign affairs), Gheorge Alexianu (former governor of Transnistria), and General Vasiliu (former deputy minister of interior affairs and head of the gendarmerie). Three weeks after gaining power Ion Antonescu said that solving the "Jewish Question" was his pressing concern, and that he considered himself "haunted" by the large Jewish presence in Moldavian towns.
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