Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names of the victims leaked out, the impact of the purge rocked Bucharest to its rotting foundations. Murdered along with the police who had carried out the Iron Guard execution two years before were onetime Iron-Guard-purging Premier General George Argeseanu; General Gabriel Marinescu, onetime Bucharest police chief and watchdog over King Carol's redheaded paramour Magda Lupescu; Victor Ismandi, Minister of Justice when Codreanu was sentenced to prison...
Though both Rumanian and German troops promptly occupied key buildings in Bucharest, murder followed murder as the hours sped by. Twenty Carolists were killed in the Ploesti oil fields. There the riots quickly turned from politics to racial hysteria, and 2,000 Jews were said to have perished. More were killed in Galati, where Iron Guardists stormed and slaughtered through the Jewish quarter...
...authority of Antonescu broke down completely. The avenging assassins of Jihlava, instead of suffering "severe measures," walked boldly into the ancient Greek Orthodox Church of Ilie Gorgani in Bucharest, through the floodlit, green-draped entrance, past the urns of burning incense on the stone stairway. Before the altar, where 26 uniformed Iron Guard youths stood at attention, they knelt, joined the solemn prayers of the priests over the candlelit caskets of Codreanu and his "martyred" followers...
Through communications which were completely closed down, then reopened, reports flew out of Rumania like volleys of bloody popcorn. Queen Mother Helen was reported to have fled the country, King Mihai I was variously reported with his mother, at the outskirts of Bucharest, conferring with German Army leaders in his palace. Vice Premier Sima was reported on a trouble-shooting junket all over the country...
Then stories buzzed out of Bucharest that revolution had leaped over Rumania's new eastern frontier, was drenching the former Rumanian province of Bessarabia in blood. But Moscow snapped communication across the frontier, plunged Bessarabia into silence...