Word: antonescu
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This week the Rumanians handed over to the Russians ex-Premier Ion Antonescu, ex-Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu (no kin), famed Nazi Balkan Expert Dr. Karl Clodius...
...Antonescu: I will not resign and will not leave this country in the hands of people that I am not sure about...
...soldiers silently forced Antonescu up the stairs to a small fireproof vault King Carol had built to safeguard his stamp collection. There they locked...
...Antonescu's bodyguards were invited to come inside for coffee. As they lifted their cups, servants slipped the pistols from their holsters, took them prisoner...
Meanwhile, the King's fellow plotters set a trap for Antonescu's leading collaborators, summoning the first by telephone and forcing him on arrival to call up another. Four or five arrived and made calls, among them the War Minister and the Prefect of Police. All were imprisoned within the palace grounds. That night Mihai proclaimed Rumania's surrender to the Allies and the overthrow of Antonescu...