Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, born Corneliu Zelinski and commonly known as Corneliu Codreanu, was a fascist Romanian politician, the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Ar
A photo of Codreanu (year unknown).
Ion Antonescu and Codreanu at a skiing event in 1935
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and Iron Guard members in 1937
1938 trial of Codreanu for high treason
The National-Christian Defense League was a far-right ultranationalist and antisemitic political party in interwar Romania.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
…career in the wake of World War I as an anticommunist and antisemitic agitator associated with A. C. Cuza and Constantin Pancu, was a co-founder of the National-Christian Defense League and assassin of the Iași Police prefect Constantin Manciu. Codreanu left Cuza to found a succession of movements on the far right, rallying around him…
The regulatory status of the LANC Brotherhoods defines their roles and duties as the core organizational cells of the League of National Christian Defense (LANC).
Cuzist students working on a bricklaying project for the building of the Christian Cultural Center, as part of their summer camp activities of the LANC Youth organization, 1924. C. Z. Codreanu can be seen in the back.
Members or sympathizers of the ultranationalist and antisemitic party National-Christian Defense League forming a swastika cca. 1925–1926