American and International Political Personalities Attack
Romania Based
on Lies and Calumnies
There are many signs that the promoters of the New World Orders wish to dismember Romania as a country, assign-ing part of its territories and population to the meighboring countries. The plan to dismember Romania was disclosed in an article in the Los Angeles Times of August 25, 1992, written by William B. Wood, Chief Geographer of the American Depart-ment of State. Without any explanation other than the New World Order demands the redrawing of borders, his global map presents the northern half of Transylvania and Bucovina as being a part of Hungary and the northern part of Moldavia as being a part of Ukraine. The Los Angeles Times is one of the four major daily newspapers of the establishment, strictly controlled and censored by the New World Order to publish only their politi-cal lines.
The plan to dismember Romania, nurtured by the promoters of the New World Order is spontaneous and not the answer to a fact or desires of the Romanian people or its leaders. The present leaders of Romania are former communists who serve and are accepted by the New World Order. The idea that the United States and the great economical powers would refuse to grant financial and political support to Romania, with the excuse that the Romanian Government does not permit thedemocratization of Romania and does not grant liberties to its citizens is entirely false. In the first place, Romania had no external debts in 1989. From 1989 to the present day Romania owes the International Monetary Fund one-billion dollars for each year without any evidence of improvement in the standard of living or the amelioration of its industrial, agrarian and economic disaster (Romanul Liber, International Edition, August-September 1995, pag 2). In the first place, Romania does not need international indebtedness but "real financial asistance". In the second place, a judicious evaluation of the policies of the United States prove that it prefers to finance terroristic governments and not governments that respect the liberties of their citizens. The United States installed bloody terrorists, as Aristide in Haiti and Nelson Mandela in Africa, to govern the people. The establishing of a communist government in Romania took place with the consent of the United States. The bankers from Wall Street financed the Bolshevik Revolution and the United States abandoned the White Russian Army that tried to save their land.
After unfounded accusations and calumnies in the news media and after promoting the idea that Romania must be dismembered because of the demands of the New World Order and "peace in the world", an idea strongly supported by the Hungarian revisionists, the following steps of advers policies towards Romania are represented as follows:
A... The letter of American Congressmen Alfonse D'Amato and Cristopher Smith addressed to President Ion Iliescu, published in Romania Libera, (August 8, 1995, expresses their "strong concern" caused by "the continuing campaign to rehabilitate Ion Antonescu and the fascist Iron Guard Movement", and by "the lack of official condemnation and vigorous investigation of the desecration of the main Jewish cemetery in Bucharest." These two politicians demand "a public statement denouncing Antonescu asa "war criminal" and the initiation of a vigorous investigation of the cemetery desecration, followed by the prosecution of those responsible," which was the overturning of some tombe-stones in the Jewish cemetery, and declared that "any future review of United States policy toward Romania, including most-favored nation status, will be strongly influenced by those events."
The two politicians are deeply disturbed by the unveiling of busts of Ion Antonescu in Slobozia in 1993 and Piatra Neamt in 1994. Congressmen D'Amato and Smith refer to Antonescu as a "war criminal". If Antonescu is accused of having been a war criminal" and a "fascist" just because he allied himself in WWII with Hitler's Germany in order to regain Bessarabia, than Roosevelt and Churchill can also be accused of having been communists because they allied themselves with the dictator Stalin and his communist regime, a declared enemy of the Christian and free world. The alliance of the United States and England with the Soviet Union brought upon eastern Europe its darkest hours: great suffering, moral, economical and social decadence, assasination of its spiritual, political and cultural elite, the destruction of churches, the confiscation of private property and the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens from these nations.
Antonescu can not be accused of being a fascist also because he was known, until his appointment as leader of the Romanian state as a man with great sympathies for England and France, a fact that determined his appointment as a leader of the state. By the mere fact that King Carol II, with the consent of Elena Lupescu, called upon Antonescu to take over the helm of the state also confirms the fact that he cannot be accused of being a fascist.
Dr. Oliver Lustig, a Jew from Transylvania, writes: "Insouthern Transylvania, under the regime of Antonescu, not a single Jewish life was in jeopardy. The Jews, both young and old, from Cluj and Dej, from Oradea and Satu-Mare, and all the cities and villages from northern Transylvania (given to Hungary by Hitler through the Diktat of Vienna, 30 August 1940) were gathered together and sent, under the Hungarian bayonets of the Horthist army, to the crematories and gas chambers of Birkenau-Auschwitz. The Jews from Turda and Alba Iulia, from Arad and Timisoara (the southern part of Transylvania that remained under the Romanian govern-ment), were not even required to display the yellow Star of David on their clothing! Moreover, these cities, as well as all the cities in Romania, offered secure shelter to all the Jews from northern Transylvania, - even from the Hungarian cities - who succeded in escaping from the ghettoes and who sought refuge in Romania. It is well-known ... the telegram sent to Berlin from Budapest by Veesenmeyer (Hitler's representative in Budapest) in which he reports.... 'From the people associated with the Romanian General Consulate in Cluj it is learned that the Jews from Hungary who sought refuge in Romania are accepted as political refugees and, consequently, are allowed by the Romanian government to emigrate to Palestine....' This is not the first time that authors from Hungary, with a simple stroke of the pen, place the responsibility for the total number of Jews from nortwest Romania, who fell victim of the Horthist-style apllication of the 'final solution' on Antonescu's government." (See Distorsions and Falsification That Offend and Defame the Memory of the Victims of the Horthist Terror", Magazine Istoric, Nr. 5, May 1987, pages 68-80).
Dr. Oliver Lustig continues to state that: "Dr. I Guttman from Israel... shows that the Nazi plans to deport the Jews from Romania to the extermination camps in Poland were energetically opposed by the Romanian people and the Romanian authorities, including the government of the dictator Antonescu... This opposition is the principal factor that saved the majority of Jews inRomania... This was not a simple consequence of some opportune decision or because of changes on the front lines, but, to a larger extent and, in a partially decisive attitude, because of the differencies in principle and concepts that existed between Nazi Germany and Romania under the dictatorship of Antonescu in regard to the Jewish population. It is unjust and inadmissible to place the fate of the Jews in northern Transylvania, where 84.5% were exterminated, on the same level with those from the southern part of Transylvania where, one knows, all remained alive. It is unjust and inadmissible to place the destiny of the Jews from Horthist Hungary on the same level - abouth which the well-known American historian Randolph Brahan states that the Jews were exterminated, without precedent, by the most brutal deportation and the most ruthless program of massacre encountered during the war, (see Genocid and Retri-bution: The Holocaust in Hungarian-Ruled Northern Transyl-vania) - "with the fate of the Jews in Romania, a country, specifically mentioned by the author that represented an oasis for the Jewish refugees from Hungary."
Congressmen D'Amato and Smith write: "Antonescu's Iron Guard supporters were notorious for documented instances of war crimes and crimes against the humanity." In reality the Iron Guard never belonged to Antonescu. General Antonescu and the Iron Guard participated for a short time in a coalition govern-ment that ended by the coup d'etat of Antonescu against the National Legionary State, with the help of the German divisions on Romanian territory and continued with the prosecution of the Iron Guards (See the archives of Hitler's government). The Iron Guard was removed from prosecution by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg after World War II because its members could not have committed any war crimes or crimes against humanity that Congressmen D'Amato and Smith speak of, because they were placed in concentration camps or prisons by Antonescu or in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.Congressmen D'Amato and Smith forget that the members of the Iron Guard were victims of the Nazi regime.
"To our knowledge, no other European nation has erected statues of a war criminal since the end of the World War II", write these two American politicians. In Romania no one erected a statue honoring a war criminal after World War II because General Antonescu, who honored his oath of loyalty to his country and defended it against the invasion of the enemy, (Soviet Russia in June 1940) cannot be considered a war criminal. Why were not these two American congressmen disturbed by the public honors which were bestowed on Horthy, the one who supported the extermination of the Jews in Hungary and north-ern Transylvania between 1940 - 1944 with such intensity that even the Nazis felt compelled to "tame" him? (Hitler's Collaborator Is Buried With Honors", the San Diego Union Tribune, September 5, 1993.)
Congressmen D'Amato and Smith write, "Any future review od the United States policy toward Romania, including most-favored nation status, will be strongly influenced by these events and Romania's progress in pursuing democratic reforms guided by the principles of the Helsinki Final Act, The Charter of Paris and other OSCE documents to which Romania is a signatory." Specifically, the criminal act is the "Toppling" of several grave stones in the Jewish cemetery in Bucharest. This act was explained by the Bucharest police as follows: "Several teenagers entered the cemetery to gather some fruits and finding them too high, they placed the tombe-stones on each-other in order to have access to the fruits." "We can conclude", write these politicians, "from such reports that efforts by the police thus far do not indicate a credible investigation of such a heinous crime." The two congressmen "fume" with indignation about the crime of "toppling" the tombe-stones, but they are very tolerant in regard to far more heinous crimes suchas assassinations and massacre of innocent victims. Congressman D'Amato chairs the congressional investigations about the Whitewater Scandal in which Vincent Foster had a role. Mr Foster, a counselor for President Clinton, was found dead under very suspicious circumstances in a Washington, DC. park. Mr D'Amato declared, "In this investigation there will be no questions about the death of Vincent Foster." "The Republicans who investigated the Whitewater Scandal, overlook the mountains of proof that indicate that the scene of the crime took place in such a way that it appeared to be a suicide instead of a assassination, and that individuals from the Park Police and even F.B.I. agents appear to participate in this cover-up", writes Ambrose Evans-Prichard, the reporter from the British newspaper "The London Sunday Telegraph (The Spotlight, August 2, 1995, pag. 2).
Congressmen D'Amato and Smith cannot believe that the grave stones were moved by some teen-agers who tried to use them as steps, but they atribute this deed to an act of "anti-Semitism" because, they wrtite, 'In the light of the desecration of the cemetery and the continuing efforts to honor Antonescu as a national hero, we fear that the foundation is being laid in Romania for a resurgence of fascism, anti-Semitism, and crude ethnically-based nationalism." Now, let's see how anti-Semitism is being reacti-vated in Romania: Adela Schwartz, a Israeli citizen of Romanian origin, arranged the robbing of a synagogue in Braila by paying $2.000.- and 100.000 Lei (As per "Cuvantul Romanesc", May 1992, page 6). This anti-Semitic act does not seem to bother Congressmen D'Amato and Smith. There are many "anti-Semitic acts" and many similar "proofs" of the "resurgence of fascism" that these Congressmen are afraid of. On January 10, 1994, the entire western nations "bubbled" with fear and indignation and a march with over 15.000 participants took place when Alke Jaeger from Halle, Germany, at the age of 17 years, told how the "Neo-Nazis" attacked her and carved a swastika on her face while shouting"Heil Hitler! Let's gas the unfit!" It was later proven that no one attacked her and that she superficially carved the symbol of the swastika on her own face and invented the story of the "attack by neo-Nazis". In November 1992, at Saxa-Anhalt, Germany, a 14 year old girl carved a swastika on her face and accused the 'neo-Nazis". In 1993 there were reports of four swastikas carved on four faces - all self-inflicted - and accusations were made against neo-Nazis. Eleven days after the "attack" against Alke Jaeger an 11 year old child complaint that "fascist" carved a swastika on his arm - this was also self-inflicted. "The Jewish cemeteries are desecrated and grave-markers are toppled by their owners frecvently", states the "National Vanguard" Nr. 113, March-April, 1994, Page 13-14).
Curtis Bruce Klein from Montgomery County, Mary-land, claimed that "some anti-Semitic Neo-Nazis" defaced his house with anti-Semitic graffiti and the insurance company paid him the sum of $31.000.- to clean it up. It was later established that he defaced his own home with "anti-Semitic" graffiti (The CDL Report, June 1994, page 1).
Congressmen D'Amato and Smith are terribly disturbed that some grave-stones are toppled, but find no reason to be upset when Haniel Koren, a 21 years old Israeli soldier, burned an Arab mosque in Gat Shmanin in Jerusalem, or forcefully entered the Christian Church of Saint Anton in Jaffa and opened fire. These two Congressmen demand that the Romanian police immediately locate and punish "the criminals" that overturned some tombe-stones, but no one demanded the punishment of Haniel Koren, whom Judge Dan Arbel refused to prosecute for any crime. He only recommended a psyhiatric evaluation in order to establish "the cause" as to why this soldier invaded the Christian church and opened fire. (Jerusalem Post, June 3, 1995, page 6 and CDL, September 1995, page 10).
The letter of Congressmen D'Amato and Smith ends with: "Mr. President, we hope to be able to welcome a democratic, free-enterprise Romanian nation that is in full compliance with its international obligations into the community of our friends and allies who have prospered and progressed since the end of World War II." Both forget that all the smaller nations that the United States "helped" were ruined, but since they were excluded from the "community of friends and allies" Chile, Bolivia and Peru experienced a prosperity they did not have it as long they belonged to that "community". (The New American, Volume 2, #18, September 1995, pag 6). The most assured way towards prosperity for the Romanian nation is by being excluded from that "frame of the Community of friends and allies" and through its own resources on its national territory.
B... On June 13, 1995, the European Parliament adopted Resolution B4 - 1025/1995, regarding the protection of human rights and the rights of minorities in Romania which:
... states that on June 28th the Romanian Parliament approved a law of public education that leads to an added deterioration of the conditions of minorities in Romania;
... states that grave infringement of human rights continue to exist in Romania; for example, the detention of non-violent political prisoners, arbitrary incarceration of certain people belonging to the Gypsy ethnic minority and the torture and maltreatement of prisioners.
... declares that "it is worried by the, certainly erroneous, of the Romanian police and security forces in regard to their obligations, rights and functions."
... declares itself "disturbed by the revival of nationalism in
Romania after 1990, especially targeting the Gypsy minority."
The European Parliament requested that the Romanian Parliament change a law regarding public education. This request was based on misinformation presented to the European Parlia-ment by the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania. As a matter of fact, this was not a law but a draft concerning public education. The law of public education in Romania, under all governments, grants many more privileges for the minorities than in any other country in the world. The Hungarians from Romania, which number 1.62 million, complained that university education is taught only in the Romanian language (who are 20.4 million) and not also in Hungarian.
Dr George Duma from San Diego, CA. writes that "1.7
million Hungarians live in the United States, more than in
Romania, and there is not one single university teaching in
Hungarian language (August 19, 1995). Why do Hungarians
demand such privileges only in Romania? The Hungarians
constitute 7.1%? of the Romanian population and object to the fact
that the teaching in Romanian schools is carried out in the
Romanian language. Twenty-million Hispanics living in the United
States (with a total population of 250 million) constitute a much
greater percentage and they do not demand that universities in
United States teach in Spanish language, nor do they complain that
the teaching is carried out only in the official language of the
country where they reside."
The concern of the European Parliament in regard to the political prisoners in Romania comes too late. The opponents to communism were incarcerated and exterminated by conditions and inhumane tortures by the hundreds of thousands in a period of over 45 years. Today, if there are political prisoners, they are those who still oppose communism and not gypsies, who never committed political acts against the government, but only committed criminal acts such as break-in, robbery and murder.
The European Parliament demands that Romania respects its "international obligationss in regard to human rights". forgetting that the Romanian government has an obligation above any international obligation, first of all towards its own people and to respect their own rights.
The European Parliament demand that Romanian government should not tolerate "nationalistic violence". In Romania nationalistic violence was always committed against, and not by the Romanians. The American television stations showed acts of violence In Targu Mures in March 1990, which depicted a victim being beaten by a group of hooligans, leading everyone to believe that this is the way in which the Romanian nationalist manifest itself; in reality, the victim was a Romanian and the attackers were Hungarians.
These lies and calumnies, woven by the enemies of the Romanian people, seem to explain the unjust, inimical attitudetowards Romania. In the same way, the conflict in March 1990 between the Romanians and Hungarians in Targu Mures, as mentioned above, was blamed on "a revival of the Iron Guard, a fascist and anti-Semitic movement" by Petru Roman, (the Jewish Prime-Minister of Romania and the son of the notorious communist Walter Roman-Neulander) in an interview with the New York Times on March 22, 1990.
On July 1, 1991, Rabbi Moses Rosen officiated at a commmoration for the 400.000 Jewish victims of the holocaust on Romanian territory, a number invented by his fantasies. At this commemoretion he stated that "from 1941 until 1991 no one mentioned this number because the Jews were so severely terrorized that they did not dare to shed tears for their dead."
The invention of Rabbi Rosen regarding the 400.000
Jews that presumably died in the imaginary holocaust in Romania was contradicted by the testimonies of other Jews. Sabin Manuila, the Director of the Institute for Statistics for Romania and W. Fielderman, President of the Jewish Com-munity in Romania, documented the fight of the Romanian people for the salvation of the Jewish minority. The Jews from the territories administered by Romania were not deported nor did they suffer. (Regional Development of the Jewish Population of Romania, Rome, 1957).
Based on the fantasies and false accusations of Rabbi Moses Rosen, on July 11, 1991, the United States Senate issued a joint resolution (Sen. Con. Res. 52) that "condemns the resurgence of anti-Semitism anf the ethnic intolerance in Romania". This is the first condamnatioin of the Romanian people after the revolution of 1989 by the American Senate. From the 400.000 so-called Jewish victims the number was reduced to 250.000 - even this number is fictitious. Manuila and Fielderman prove thatbetween 1930 and 1944 the number of Jews in Romania grew from 312.972 to 355.972. In another words a growth of 13%? (Op.cit. pag. 15), which means that 250.000 did not die. Regarding the terror during the 50 years, from 1944 to the present, that prohibited the Jews from Romania to "cry for their dead", Edwin Eyten writes in Tribune Juive, that was published in Paris, Nr. 690-691, September 25-October 15, 1981:
"At the end of the World War II 400.000 Jews lived in Romania and now there are 40.000. ... The joke that is circulated in the Jewish quarters is that those stil remaining in Romania are waiting to depart for Israel, but the reality is different. The majority of those that wanted to leave have by now departed and are living in other countries. The Jews that remained in Romania, contrary to wishes of their families, can be divided into two groups: those too poor and to old, who live from pensions given by the state, or who live in old peoples home of the community and those too well-situated and in excellent positions that refuse to leave. ... The majority of educated Romanian Jews have families in Israel, often their children or brothers or sisters." (page 35-36). Are these the dead that Rabbi Rosen 'did not dare to cry for?"
"Between 1948 and 1952 100.000 Jews left for Israel" states Eytan. "In a period of a few weeks, in 1958, 130.000 applications for visas to Israel were requested by the Romanian Jews. This prompted Prime Minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer to ask Moses Rosen: 'What did we do to them? We saved their lives, we fought against the Nazis and we gave them full rights. Even before the war, under the Legionary Government they did not emigrate like now. When the emigration was closed, the people of Israel accused us of being anti-Semitics; now that it is open, they accuse us of chasing them away and attack us even worse,'" states Eytan.
"The socialist law demands that private schools cannotexists, that foreign subsidies are not pertmitted, that no other
political view is permitted other than that of the communist party;
commercial contacts with the outer world are not allowed and
loyalty for another state cannot be tolerated. Even so, the Federation
of the Jewish Communities had many Talmudic schools and religious
education, received substantial assistance from the World Jewish
Congress, participated at international Jewish conferences and in all
synagogues in the country, on every occcasion, prayers were recited
for Israel and its eternal capital, Jerusalem. ... In 1981, the
Federation of the Jewish Communities administered 120 temples and
synagogues in the entire country, from which 61 are open every
day," relates Eytan. In the same publication we read that "the
great rabbis at the European Conference of Rabbis in Bucharest
thanked Mose Rosen and the Romanian government that facilitated
the massive emigration of the Jews from his country to Israel and
helped the community to safeguard its Jewish life-style".
Elie Wiesel, the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize,
whose sick fantasy gave the world a multitude of lies, writes with
fervor in his autobiography, "Night", which is printed in different
languages and versions: In Auschwitz and Buchenwald the Ger-mans were burning Jews alive in ditches: there was a ditch for
adults and one for children. He was marched, with a column of
victims, to within three paces from the margin of the ditch, from
where, by mysterious circumstances, he was taken back to the
barracks. Later, he was again marched with a column of victims
to within two paces from the brink of the burning ditch. Formonths the earth trembled and springs of blood erupted from the
ground at Baby Yar, in the Ukraine, and that in Buchenwald ten-thousand Jews were killed daily. He was between the last
hundred at the gates of deatth, but everytime he was saved by
unknown circumstances. Elie Wiesel and his father, Jews from
Transylvania, fell under Hungarian occupation following the
Diktat of Vienna of 1940 and were deported by the Hungarian
authorities, which he maliciously calls "Romanian authorities".
They arrived in Buchenwald and during the liberation of the
camp by the triumphant Soviet troops, Elie Wiesel and his father
preferred to retreat within Germany with the troops of their
"German murderers".
The truth about the so-called anti-Semitism of the Romanians is described by another man, who was never caught up in the kind of fantasies and lies as Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize recipient, Dr. Alkexandru Safran, the present Chief Rabbi of Geneva, who was the chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Romania during the critical period from 1940 to 1947, and who was a member of the Romanian Senate during that period, stated , when he stepped on Romanian soil in 1995, after an interval of five decades: "I thank God who granted me the gift to walk again on Romanian soil where I was born and that I love. I bless theRomanian Jews, the Romanian country and its good people."
In his speech before the Romanian Senate on March 28, 1995, Chief Rabbi Alexander Safran mentioned, among other statements: "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am standing before you filled with gratitude. I thank you for the invitation that you extended to me to come amidst you and allow me to speak and I want you to know that the words are of good-will and spring from the bottom of my heart, filled with the same love what I had when I gave my first speech in this Senate in the month of March, now more than a half a century ago. ... During the Nazi regime we, the Jews from Romania were persecuted, oppressed and tortured, but we did not forget that in those bad times ... we sensed a breath of kindness and compassion, even healing, and the dawn of salvation." The Rabbi continues to mention the Romanian Viorica Agarici, who took great risks to help the deported Jews from Moldova detained without water in a train-car in the station of Roman; about Dr. Costinescu, another Romanian, that made efforts to eliminate the difficulties and sufferings imposed on these Jews at their destination and to successfully return the confiscated instruments to the Jewish doctors; about Queen Mother Elena who, through her efforts assured humanitarian help for those deported in Transnistria; about the Romanian officer who, compelled by pity, established liaison between him and the Jewish ghettoes in Bessarabia during the occupation by the Soviet Army; about the actions of Metropolitan Nicolae Balan from Transylvania, who played an important role during that time in preventing the deportation of Jews from the occupied part of Transylvania and from the old Romanian kingdom. "The Jews from northern Transylvania, under Hungarian occupation, did not have the good fortune to live in the diocese of Metropolitan Balan and, as such, did not have the fortune to be under the protection of this great Romanian soul," said Chief Rabbi Safran. "These poor souls were cruelly sent to Auschwitz" ... "And the few Jews fromnorthern Transylvania that avoided the deportation to Auschwitz were saved due to the noble and compassionate sentiments of Professor Raul Sorban. Yes, Mr. Sorban, to you and your well- planned activities and generous and saving activities of your friends we owe our gratitude. You made efforts in facilitating the escape of these Jews to the part of Transylvania under Romanian rule and from this sanctuary, to leave for the promised land." ... "In other words, from the point of view of the deportation of Jews in Poland, Romania is placed at the level of the few European countries that were occupied by the Hitlerite armies, as Bulgaria, Denmark and Finland, who did not send their citizens of Jewish origin to die in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. I pray that God will bless the beautiful country of Romania and its good and generous Romanian people. Dear Romanian brothers and sisters, don't forget that I will remember you with love and gratitude, that you will always be present in my prayers, that the Almighty God will defend this dear country and its dear people." said Rabbi Safran when he left Romania on March 29, 1995.
Congressmen D'Amato and Smith preferred to ignore all the statements made by Chief Rabbi Alexander Safran in March 1995 and three months later, in July, they looked for proof of the so-called anti-Semitic acts in Romania. All their efforts were limited to the few toplled tombe-stones and that gave them the right to take an offensive, arrogant and threatening tone, men-tioning the possibility of restrictions in the commercial most-favored nation status given to Romania. The Congress and Senate of the United States had no difficulty when they recently granted the same status, without any restrictions or conditions, to Communist China, whose government terrorized and assassinated its citizens in the tens of millions, in the most brutal and bloody manner. It is estimated that the communist regimes exterminated 150 million people, the majority killed by barbaric savagery. Congressmen D'Amato and Smith have nothing to say aboutthese victims. They consider the toppling of a few grave monuments (?) to be a much more heinous crime.
In continuation we will use the publication of Gheorghe Buzatu, a historian from Iasi, that was recently printed by the publishing house "Majadahonda" from Bucharest, with the title "So Started the Holocaust in Romania". The work of Mr. Buzatu are based on the reports of the Supreme Command of the Roma-nian Army from 1940, that deals with the retreat from Bessa-rabia.
In this publication Mr Buzatu quotes from the report of
Lt. Colonel Ion Palade about the way the evacuation of Bessa-rabia and northern Bucovina took place, attesting to the
preparations of the anti-Romanian elements for the moment of
the "liberation" of these provinces by the Soviet troops. "It is
once more documented, if necessary, that the subversive elements in
question, the majority of which were Jews of communist orientation,
collaborated with the enemy before the moment of impact and
meticulously prepared for the Soviet invasion." For reason which are
self-evident we reproduce the entire chapter:
The Terroristiuc Activity of the Communists and Jews
During the Time of Evacuation
Before the preparations for evacuations began, in all the cities and markets, committees were formed by the communists and Jews who decided in advance the way the Soviet troops would be received and the activities to hinder the evacuation. Communist manifests were dropped from airplanes on June 29, 1940, inciting the population to hinder the evacuation, to put mines in factories, railroad stations and to prevent the evacuation of valuables from the territories to be occupied. Through other distributed manifests the workers and peasants were encouragedto oppose the war preparations of Romania and fight for a popular government friendly to the Soviet Union.
The Jewish population and the communists formed armed bands that committed acts of savagery against the families who tried to transport the few possessions that they wanted to take to Romania. In Chisinau the Jews and communists liberated the communist prisoners, held demonstrations in the streets, carrying red flags and interferred with those who were going to the railroad stations to be evacuated. The Jews and communists assassinated the police commissars lt. Pascal, Constantin Mateescu, Severin and Stol.
In 1941 Ion Antonescu stated that not all the Jews were guilty of acts of terrorism, but because one could not establish the innocent from the guilty, all Jews were considered guilty because they constituted the majority and were protected by the others.
In general, the army and the population manifested its anger against the Jews. Not excluded were grave anti-Semitic manifestation on the part of the army, but the events that followed were not organized by any authority. These were reactions against the atrocities committed by the Jews and communists against the population.
Dead or missing from the army during the evacuation were 293 officers, 270 non-commissioned officers and 61,970 soldiers. Marshall Antonescu stated on November 19, 1941, that the events from 1940, which were inspired and carried out, in essence, by the Jews, constituted a crime against the Romanian people. We repeat that the statements of Antonescu are based on the reports of the chief of military units during their retreat from Bessarabia, condensed in the report of the General Staff of theArmy. These reports were also sent to King Carol II, who confirmed them in his personal journal:
June 29, 1940: "The abuses, attacks and insults against our people and the officers and soldiers from various units were committed by the minority population, especially the Jews.
June 30, 1940: "Incidents, especially involving the Jewish population, occured all over. Because of this the evacuations in many places were impossible. Functionaries were shot, even military were attacked."
July 1, 1940: "The same news about the excesses and aggressions on the part of the Jews and communists. Most are directed against officers who were beaten up and degraded."
July 3, 1940: "The situation in Bessarabia is very sad. Today is the last day of the evacuation and it was declared a day of national mourning. Jews and communists behaved in a deplorable way. The assassinations and molestations make me fear that dangerous reactions will occur."
July 6, 1940"
"The news from the country is fearful. The
behaviour of the Jews from Bessarabia and Bucovina was of such a
terrible nature during the retreat that this provoked a reaction and
an indignation that manifested itself through excesses, assassinations
and destruction."
In spite of the censorship of the press, the newspapers mentioned scenes from the time of the retreat, emphasizing theJewish excesses. The newspaper "Universul" excelled in its writings and the well-known historian Nicolae Iorga placed himself in the center of the national and international attention with his unforgetable article published in "Neamul Romanesc" from July 6, 1940, with the sub-title of:
"Why So Much Hate ?"
"Documents, materials, official papers and depositions taken
under oath grow under our eyes."
"High magistrates and brave officers, who risked their lives
trying to defend with all their powers the retreat and exit of
Romanians, saw with their own eyes innumerable acts of barbarism,
the stoning and killing of innocent people and heard the use
"Why so much hate ?"
"Is this the way to appreciate our good will and tolerance ?"
"We accepted the monopoly and Jewish domination for
several decades and the Jews showed their vengeance during the dark
hours through which we now live. No condamnation by anyone or
strong disapproval was mentioned regarding the deeds of this bloody
sects and bands of murderers. This organized ruthlessness against us
spilled over into cities, villages and markets."
"Our brothers abandoned sick children, old parents and
goods accumulated from hard work. In their misfortune they needed
a good word or at least a "crumb" of compassion. Warm encourage-ment and understanding word, even if only sentimental, would
have been received with great recognition. They were showered withbullets and cut to pieces with axes; many lost their lives."
"Many had their clothes ripped off, robbed of the goods they
carried with them and then were exposed to savage and barbaric
treatement. The Romanian population, in their kindness, which
bordered on stupidity towards the newcomers and abusers, deserved
a more human treatment from the side of the Jewish population who
claimed, until yesterday, that 'they have warm and brotherly
sentiments towards our people in misfortune'.
Congressmen D'Amato and Smith are deeply concerned that anti-Semitism is reviving in Romania.
What anti-Semitism ?
The one that saved the Jews who run from northern Transylvania and Hungary during World War II so that they were able to escape the deportation to the concentration camps in Poland and Germany? Maybe we have to deal with the Jewish hatred against the Romanian people that was proclaimed in the name of Socialist Partty even in 1919, when in the Jewish newspaper "Adevarul" on December 28, 1919 we find the follow-ing statement: "The hate should be forever directed against the political party of killers that governs and is headed by Ion Bratianu."
Even before, in the same newspaper dated October 5, 1919, the Jews declared war "against the legal authorities in the country." From the article with the same title we quote:
"It is over ! Through the "high" decree-law, during the
electoral period, a new regime is installed, much more sever than the
previous one of marshall-law and censorship. The opposition and the
entire country is placed outside the law."
"Pure and simple, this is a government of a military
dictatorship, where the crown alone retains all the power. The crown
and the liberal party, as executors of these two wills, is the
government composed of generals. ... in this way a decree-law forbids
any attacks against the crown. In other words, if expressing the truth
would be considered an attack against the crown, because the crown,
along with the liberal party, assumed the respopnsiblity of leading
the country, than we will still have to carry out the attack."
During this time, general strikes and demonstrations took place on the streets in Iasi, when the masses shouted slogans: "Down with the King!" "Down with the Army!" "Long live the Soviet Union!" At the same time the red flag of the communist party fluttered over the Nicolina factories. What does all this mean but Jewish hatred against the Romanian people ? In the end they accuse us of hate against them. What do the two congressmen have to say about the aggression and racial hatred of the Jews against the Romanian people? As shown above, they joined the Bolshevik hordes and attacked the Romanian army in retreat from Bessarabia, which was forbidden to retaliate and the civilian population that had no means of defense.
Honorable Congressmen, we ask you, who hates whom?
When did the Romanian people give proof of hatred against other nations? If the answser is never, then how can you dare make the accusation that anti-Semitism is being revived in Romania?
For centuries in Romania the people were victims of Jewish hatred. Even from the previous century, in 1870, Secretary of Interior Mihail Kogalniceanu closes his report, which was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the words:
"This proved the grave concern of the Romanian population,caused by grave sufferings and by a legitimate fear, because the voice
of a nation feels threatened in its nationality and its economic
interest. This voice can be suppressed by the foreigners, but it is not
permitted by any Romanian minister, regardless of the political
party, to ignore it."
The warning of Ion Eliade Radulescu (published in "The Israelites and the Jews" , 1869, chapter 10, page 380-383):
"For the good that we offered them and gave them, in the
name of the regeneration of people and even of the Jews on
Palestinian territory, we shed tears of compassion and give them all
the advice that a Christian can give. ... jealous because of the
salvation of the entire humanity, through the wound of Jesus Christ
who, from the height of the cross forgave His own executioners. ...
somehow not to try something alike or even not to think, not even
to pretend in this time of turmoil provoked by Satan and his
demons that leads them into temptation. ... not to try something like
this because only God knows how far the Romanians would go in
their legitimate and most sacred response, defending their rights as
any nation that possesses the instinct of preservation,"
What kind of "savage nationalism"?
In 1940, following the Diktat of Vienna, after the occupation of northern Transylvania, the Hungarians committed brutal and beastly acts against the Romanian peole by slaughtering entire villages and destroying their churches, schools and any other cultural or public establishments.
In Hungary, in 1939, a pamphlet with the title "Nincs kegyelem" ("Without Pity"), by Ducso Csaba was printed and distributed with the help of the government, to morally and politically prepare the military and para-military unit fo the eventual occupation of Transylvania. We quote the following from this pamphlet:
"I will destroy every Romanian that is in my way ! I will
exterminate each one ! Without pity! At night I will set fire to the
Romanian villages! I will use the sword on the entire population !
I will poison the wells! I will strangle infants ! I will have no pity
! For nobody! Not for children and not for the pregnant women !
Revenge ! Without pity, brutal revenge !"
Where and when did the Romanians commit such crimes as to justify the accusation of "savage nationalism"?
At the installation of the communist regime in Romania, the region of Cluj had 1.153.026 inhabitants, from which 20%? were Hungarians and the composition of the communist party in December 1945 counted: 288 Romanians, 2490 Hungarians, 195 Jews and 8 Germans.," (Archives of the State, Block one, Dossier 1, File 13). If in the communist party the Hungarians, which constituted only 20%? of the population of the region and occupied 83%? of the political positions in the party, and the Jews, who controlled positions in the party eight times more than the Romanians, and if in the jails of the communist regime there were 95%? Romanians, who carried out the terror in Transylvania and against whom? We ask Congressmen D'Amato and Smith what "savage nationalism", based on ethnicity is being revived in Romania?
We ask these two American congressmen to revise the contents of their letter and to beg forgiveness from the Romanian people for the unjust insults that they brought against them and which we reject with all possible indignation.
These two gentlemen should know:
- that, from the beginning we are a Christian people.
- that we are incapable of hate.
- that we possess a kindness bordering on stupidity, as stated by Prof. Nicolae Iorga.
- that we are not capable of any kind of atrocities and, by far, not of the kind that was committed against us by the Jews during the evacuation of Bessarabia in 1940, or those committed by the Hungarians in northern Transylvania when theseterritories were ceded.
Let it be known to that world that looks upon us with animosity that our patience has its limits, as stated by Ion Eliade Radulescu in a previous paragraph: "Not to try something like this that God knows where the Romanians will end in their legitimate and most sacred quests or reactions in defending their rights, as any other nation that has the instinct of survival or preservation."
July 18, 1995
His Excellency Ion Iliescu
President of Romania
Bucharest, Romania
Dear Mr. President:
We write today to express our strong concern over a series of events in Romania what we believe are fundamentally incompatible with Romania's declared desire for a warm bilateral relationship with the United States and affiliation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Specifically, we refer to the continuing campaign to rehabilitate Ion Antonescu and the fascist Iron Guard movement, and the lack of official condemnation and vigurous investigation of the desacration of the main Jewish cemetery in Bucharest. We ask for a public statement denouncing Antonescu as a war criminal, and Nazi ally, and the initiation of a vigurous investigation of the cemetery desacration, followed by the prosecution of those responsible for this criminal act.
In light of the desacration of the cemetery and the continuing effort to honor Antonescu as a national hero, we fear that the foundation is being laid in Romania for a resurgence offascism, anti-Semitism, and crude ethnically-based nationalism. Any future review of United States policy toward Romania, including most-favored nation trading status, will be strongly influenced by these events and Romania's progress in pursuing democratic reform guided by the principles of the Helsinki Final Act, the Charter of Paris and other OSCE documents to which Romania is a signatory.
We were startled to learn that there are periodic program on government-controlled television that support the rehabilitation of Antonescu and other Romanian war criminals. The production and broadcast of these programs implies government sponsorship of this effort.
Two statues honoring Antonescu already exist. The bust located in Slobozia, apparently financed by the local police, was erected on October 22, 1993, one day after the United States Congress voted to grant most-favored nation status to Romania. On November 12, 1994, a new statue of Antonescu was unveiled in Piatra Neamt. Representatives of the Prefect laid a wreath at and a uniformed military unit paraded in front of the statue. This followed on the heels of the Romanian government public statement that a Romanian high court decision blocking erection of similar statue In TIrgu Mures, an ethnically Hungarian town, would act as a precedent blocking the placement of similar tatues in the future. Now, yet another Antonescu statue is reportedly being prepared for erection in the town of Bacau.
To our knowledge, no other European nation has erected statues of a war criminal since the end of the World War II. Antonescu led a Romanian regime allied with Nazi Germany and the Axis powers. American servicemen died fighting the Nazis and their allies. Antonescu's Iron Guard supporters were notorious for documented instances of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In this, the fiftieth anniversay year of the end of World War II, attempts to rehabilitate Antonescu and the Iron Guard cannot be taken lightly.
Lastly, we are concerned by the apparent lack of immediateresponse by your government to the desecration of the main Jewish cemetery in Bucharest. The act of desecration was highly symbolic, and the lack of an immediate condamnation by Romanian authorities has sent a clear and ominous political message. We are advised that the Ambassador Mozes and U.S. embassy staff visited the cemetery and report that more than 170 grave stones have been uprooted. We have been further advised that, after initially refusing to take any action to investigate this crime, the police have now arrested several juveniles and charged them in the case. We understand that the police report regarding the incident claims that "the children entered the cemetery to pick berries and, while they were there, decided to kick over a few grave stones." We can only conclude from such reports that efforts by the police thus far do not indicate a credible investigation of such a heinous crime.
Mr. President, we hope to be able to welcome a democratic, free-enterprise Romanian nation that is in full compliance with its international obligations into the community of our friends and allies who have prospered and progressed since the end of the World War II. Our mutual commitments to the principle of the Helsinki Final Act, the Charter of Paris and other OSCE documents permit no compromises on the road to democratic reform.
We look forward to learning your response to these important points.
Sincerely,
Alfonse D'Amato, U.S.S.
Co-Chairman
Christopher Smith, M.C.
Chairman
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