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Here are some Romanian songs about WW2 This one is by rock group Voltaj and is called "Erou" (Hero): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxK9MWeZpBU This folk song by Maria Gheorghiu is called "Bocetul lui Ioan fara de mormant" (The lament of John the one without a grave): http://www....

Only a small number were "booted" in the period right after ww2. Most of them left later because they wanted to, for a better life in Germany. Their ethnic origin helped them escape the miserable fate of the Romanians under communism.

Some of them fought in the German army and the SS (mostly in the Prinz Eugen and Florian Geyer divisions I think). Others chose to serve in the Romanian army, even some of the generals (like Hugo Schwab, who commanded the Romanian Mountain Corps at some point in the war and commited suicide in Augus...

Does Manstein's attack across the Severnaya Bay during the siege of Sevastopol count as an amphibious landing?

Manstein also planned other similar operations, like the plan for a Romanian mountain regiment to land behind the Soviet positions in the Salkovo isthmus, during the battle of Perekop.

In the memoirs of Raoul Bossy, the Romanian ambassador to Berlin (March 1941-June 1943), I found an interesting comment by Hitler on the fall of Singapore. Bossy accompanied marshall Antonescu on his visit to Hitler on 11 February 1942 at Gorlitz. Hitler told us about the fall of Singapore, the migh...

Many. Some German officers blamed their allies for any defeat where allies were present. This is the case of Romanians, at least, but I guess they did the same about their other allies. Could you give the names of these officers, and the basis of your "guesses"? From what I have read ther...

"So which memoirs "blame" the allies for the disaster in southern russia? Many. Some German officers blamed their allies for any defeat where allies were present. This is the case of Romanians, at least, but I guess they did the same about their other allies. However, it must be said...

13-14 September – no major attacks on Timisoara but the defenders are now in a precarious position because to the North Arad and Aradul Nou were captured by Hungarians and to the South German units occupy Oravita and Sasca Montana. On 14 September, a small Hungarian attack from the North is repulsed...

20 August 1944 - start of the Soviet offensive on the Romanian front, the front collapses and the Red Army advances on Bucharest 23 August - King Michael I arrests Marshall Antonescu and proclaims an armistice with the Soviets. The Russians mostly ignore the armistice and capture a large part of the...

Thought it would be interesting to post here information about a forgotten battle of WW2, the defense of the Western Romanian city of Timisoara in September 1944. Some background information first. As the Red Army reached Romanian territory in 1944, all the combat-worthy Romanian units were sent to ...

That train existed indeed, although I don't know any photos of it. It destroyed several US bombers during Operation Tidal Wave, when the bomber formations passed over it at low altitude, in easy reach of its light flak guns. After 23 August 1944, the train started to metodically destroy the oilfield...

Hi Victor, Yes, I know that. However, if the initial order wouldn't have been changed (at Hitler's request, as far as I remember), and the 48th Corps would have opposed only the Southern Soviet breakthrough, maybe the encirclement of the 6th Army could have been avoided. In any case, I just wanted t...

I would add something else here. German memoirs and some history books claim that one of the main causes of the defeat was the poor leadership of the Romanian commanders. This is, in my opinion, a ridiculous excuse for the German's own leadership failures. General Petre Dumitrescu, the commander of ...

As Sid pointed out, without the Romanian army, the German Southern front couldn't have even advanced to Stalingrad in the first place. Manstein certainly couldn't have conquered the Crimea without Romanian support and it is likely that the Germans alone would have been stopped somewhere in the Odess...

May he rest in peace. "Slaughterhouse Five" is one of my favourite war-related books, a masterpiece that shows the absurdity of the Dresden bombing and the war in general in a very unconventional way. Most of his other works were brilliant too, with a touch of the same madness and wild sen...