Word: antonescu
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...would talk here of their old campaigns and think up new ones. At one time or another Franz von Papen, Hitler's ambassador to Ankara . . . would rest in the lobby. . . . Suave Dr. Clodius, Hitler's economic wizard, would recover his breath here after endless discussions with General Antonescu. . . . Even Frau Himmler, wife of the Gestapo chief, looking like Elsa Maxwell, came and ate big portions of whipped cream...
...away from her on the orders of Hitler and his satellites; King Carol had to abdicate; the country went through a period of bloody internal disorders, after the German occupation; all this might account for the fact that the people, in need of unity and order, rallied behind General Antonescu who seemed ready to destroy the disturbing elements such as the Nazi Iron Guardists...
...Antonescu, his Fourth Army supported by German auxiliaries, moved into action. German support, it appeared, also included a good deal of prodding. A Rumanian platoon commander, later killed in action, wrote in his diary: "Our men are grumbling and asking what business do we have beyond the Dniester. But Germans are behind us and they don't answer such questions-except with their guns. . . . We'll be commanded to sacrifice our lives in order to seize what never belonged to us. So it must be, they tell...
After 59 days of continuous siege, Adolf Hitler's headquarters announced last week that Ion Antonescu's Army, with German and Rumanian planes inflicting heavy losses on evacuating vessels in the harbor, had crushed Odessa's last defenses, found last-ditch defenders behind street barricades made out of their own dead. Women and children fought side by side with...
Said Germany: The city had no civilians save, babies and wounded. Losses were fantastic. Crowed young Mihai Antonescu in a victory broadcast from Bucharest: "The population received the German and Rumanian troops enthusiastically...