Operation München
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Operation München was the Romanian codename of a joint German-Romanian offensive during the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II, with the primary objective of recapturing Bessarabia, N
Romanian cavalryman escorting Soviet prisoners
Units of the German 11th Army building a pontoon bridge across the Prut River during the advance towards Uman
Romanian Heinkel He 114 floatplane during Operation München
Ion Antonescu
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Ion Antonescu was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. Having been responsible f
Operation München
…region was under Romanian-German control. On 17 August, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina were formally re-integrated into the Romanian state. Mareșal Ion Antonescu Romanian Third Army – Lieutenant General Petre Dumitrescu Mountain Corps – Major General Gheorghe Avramescu 1st Mountain Brigade – Brigadier General…
Portrait, 1941
Antonescu (bottom row, centre) with the other officers of the Section "Operations" of the wartime General Staff (Marele Cartier General), end of March 1918
General Antonescu (left) with Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Căpitan of the Iron Guard, at a skiing event in 1935
Antonescu's official portrait, 1942