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Rumania. Passing through the twilight gloom of the Kazan defile, 100 miles east of Belgrade, Hitler would soon reach the historic Iron Gate, separating the Balkan and the Carpathian ranges. There, on the western border of Rumania, he might meet his stooge, General Ion Antonescu. The General's report would be grim...
...linen spats and monocles, they sat at their table in the lobby from noon until midnight, studying "women's points." One Old Excellency had "the face of a sick greyhound." The other, "grey-haired and heavy-eyed," had a pointed beard like that of the late Rumanian premier, Ion Bratianu. They were wicked and pornographic old men, who always thought the worst about everybody, "with the distinction that they never thought the worst of the worst...
...General Ion Antonescu stood on a green hill overlooking Odessa, German binoculars fixed on a covey of his Rumanian Army planes that were blanketing the city with leaflets. Back in Bucharest, Nephew Mihai, now Acting Premier in the General's absence, waited anxiously . for news of Uncle Ion's first major assignment from his Nazi bosses...
...Ion 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...