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Country: Romania

  1. Reports

    Reports related to the rebellion and its aftermath. 21.I - 24.II. 1941. Manifest legionnaire signed by Viorel Trifa (NB.later orthodox bishop in Detroit) requesting expulsion of “judaized” ministers from the Romanian government.

  2. Protection

    against parachutists, airborne troops and partisans.

  3. Plan

    of operations and maps regarding measures to protect main objectives against parachutists and partisans.

  4. Jewish forced labor

    Jewish forced labor brigades: diggers, forced labor, field work 1942/1943. Organization of means of transportation: equipment and personnel. Reorganization of the military guards.

  5. Misc. - territory - etapes.

    Instructions for organizing the secretarial service. Territorial distribution of military commands in Transnistria.

  6. Propaganda, Counter-propaganda, Intelligence, Censorship

    Organization of mobile control groups. The legionnaire activity. Detailed reports on cases of false identity, insubordination, legionnaire propaganda, defiant behavior of the German minority, chauvinist movement among the Hungarian population; various individual cases, and measures taken. New rules and regulations for political activity. A German poem defamatory for Romania is shown by a drunk German soldier. Complaints about the disdainful behavior of the German military toward the Romanian “comrades in arms”. Several facts were verified and confirmed as true. A revival of the political pa...

  7. Chiffered symbols and signatures.

    Measures are indicated to maintain secrecy as required; real names not to be used in telecommunications. Lists of signatures for telegraphic and telephonic communications. Lists for the symbols of various Units and Services.

  8. Orders and requests.

    Orders of permanent nature, for military personnel and organization. Colonization of Bessarabia. Request to settle there, from a number of NC officers. Officers’ wives requested to perform duties at social services. Instructions regulating the duties of Jews in the working brigades. Order from Antonescu to limit the body weight of the officers to 75 Kg. Obligatory physical exercises are instituted. Casa Ostirii (Army Club): description, history, functions.

  9. Propaganda, Counter-propaganda, Intelligence, Censorship

    A calendar is distributed containing texts elogious of the Hungarian army.

  10. Jews

    Problems related to use of Jewish hospitals and workers, Various requests from Jewish communities and individuals, mostly related to forced labor. Lists of Jews provided with certificate of dispensation from forced labor.

  11. Suspicious elements in the Army

    Communists, Legionnaires, Irredentists, Sectants, terrorists. Due to the international situation, an increase in the activities of various factions requires higher vigilance in the detection of suspicious elements in the armed forces. Under suspicion are officers of German origin (Saxons, swabs). Reports and analyses of personnel from various minorities and provinces: German, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Bessarabia, Transylvania.

  12. Campaign against Hungary

    Activity of the propaganda groups. Distribution to the troops of materials received from the Soviet Union. Preparations for a military gazette. Atrocities committed by the Hungarian army.

  13. Remarks

    Requests for lists of all military personnel, divided by categories in accordance with their activities, belonging to a political movement, or who committed acts of terrorism, maiming or killing. Follow lists from various Units.

  14. Instructions

    for Jewish forced labor brigades, forced labor, guards, field work, instructions for procurement of cattle food, concurrence between the base units and the spread-out formations for improving the situation of the villages. April 1 - August 3, 1944. Instructions for the formation of guard units. Documents related to the above.

  15. Army Engineering Corps requests

    permission to use Jews in communication services and other special positions. Jewish women to be also mobilized; to be used for hospitals or other institutions and should not be put to heavy manual work.

  16. Remarks

    Terrorist activities, sabotage, espionage, partisans, Atrocities committed by German-Hungarian troops. Dec. 20, 1944 and up to April. 25, 1945.Capture of two Hungarian partisans. Information regarding creation of a school of partisans in Hungary, to commit acts of sabotage in Romania. Hungarian partisans and terrorists infiltrated into Romanian territory. Material based on interrogations of apprehended terrorists. Reports of atrocities committed by German troops in the battle against the Soviet troops, killing and wounding a great many Romanian military. Information on the activity of the G...

  17. Manifests and informative reports

    with regard to the mood of the military. Atrocities committed by the Hungarian and German troops in Transylvania. Manifests spread by the legionnaires, full of antisemitic venom. (Note: a great number of pages were taken out by the Security Services and do not appear on the reel).

  18. Declarations

    of ethnic origin for commissioned and non-commissioned officers. Rules for establishing the ethnic origin as Jew. Individual declarations.

  19. Actions against partisans in Transnistria

    Reports of counter-espionage. Fights with bands of partisans by German and Romanian troops. Reports of attacks by partisans on railroads, military installations, hospitals. Interception and fights with parachutists. Full scale fights against partisans with considerable human and material losses. Lists of victims.

  20. Study

    of retrenchment (repliere) of the 4-th Army from Bessarabia into Moldova over the Pruth under enemy pressure.