The Romanian Orthodox Church and the HolocaustIon Popa
The Holocaust in Romania had its own distinctive features. It was carried out by a sovereign German ally, and the deaths resulted primarily from deportation and incarceration under inhuman conditions rather than from outright murder. Romania’s wartime dictator, Marshal Ion Antonescu, acted on his ow...
| Published in: | Holocaust and genocide studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 476-478 |
| Review of: | The romanian orthodox church and the holocaust (Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017) (Deletant, Dennis)
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| Summary: | The Holocaust in Romania had its own distinctive features. It was carried out by a sovereign German ally, and the deaths resulted primarily from deportation and incarceration under inhuman conditions rather than from outright murder. Romania’s wartime dictator, Marshal Ion Antonescu, acted on his own—albeit in a context of Nazi domination over continental Europe. His treatment of the Jews was ambivalent. For those of Bukovina and Bessarabia, whom he regarded as having Communist sympathies and suspected of disloyalty to Romania, he was a cruel antisemite, deporting the majority to camps in Transnistria. For those of Moldavia, Wallachia, and southern Transylvania, he has been described as “a providential anti-Semite” who saw them as “his own Jews. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy044 |