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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 2h

King Mihai I of Romania having an Easter meal with soldiers in 1941.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 20h

Romanian mountain troops making an advance for the camera in WW2.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A burial ceremony for Romanian soldiers in the USSR during WW2.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Romanian police officers in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during WW2.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A Romanian pilot lets children play in an aircraft during WW2.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Romanian color guard during a review in the 1930s.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Romanian soldiers with flamethrowers during WW2.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A German convoy halts in front of the Romanian Military Academy in Bucharest in 1941. The German Army Mission in Romania received office space in the building for its headquarters.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can you spot these Romanian soldiers in the Tunari Forest, just north of Bucharest, in 1997? 😉

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The officers of the No. 11 Siret Infantry Regiment, an infantry unit based in Galați, circa 1900.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Who is afraid of peace?" A leaflet dropped on Romania in summer 1944 saying only the Germans didn't want the war to end with quotes from Molotov claiming the USSR had no designs on Romania & FDR saying only guilty leaders will face punishment. Note the little RAF & USAAF planes.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The administrators, faculty, & graduates of the Timişoara Israelite Confession High School for the academic year of 1941-1942.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A team of the 1st Roads Battalion of the 141st Jewish Labor Detachment performing forced labor for the Romanian Army near Predeal in 1944.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*We From Bombardment* by Grigore Olimp Ioan published in 1941.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Danube River port of Brăila in September 1943.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The cover of *Soldier Notebook*, written by Alexandru Raicu & illustrated by Nicolae Brana, published in Romania in 1942.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Romanian soldiers pose with a furry friend in November 1943.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Marshal Ion Antonescu, Romanian dicator, with General Ferdinand Schörner, a German army group commander, discussing the defense of Romania against Red Army advances in spring 1944.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A postcard from 1950 showing new recruits holding a copy of the Romanian military oath.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The cover for the Regulations of Infantry Fire published by the Romanian Ministry of War in 1912.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Romanian men in traditional peasant attire give a fascist salute under the flags of Romania, Nazi Germany, & Fascist Italy during a parade in Chişinău in 1942.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pretzel sellers on a street in Ploieşti in 1941.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A fin de siècle postcard of the Transylvania barracks of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Temesvár.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Women & girls in traditional peasant costume march in a 10 May (then the national day) parade in Romania in 1942.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Romanian high school students in April 1941. In the middle, 3 of the girls are wearing tricolor sashes with names of the "lost territories" of (northern) Transylvania, Bessarabia, & (northern) Bukovina, which Romania had ceded to Hungary in September 1940 & the USSR in July 1940.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The entrance to the War Council in Bucharest in the 1930s

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Marshal Józef Piłsudski with the Romanian royal family (men in uniform, women in a semblance of traditional peasant costume) during a state visit in the 1920s.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A battlefield burial for Romanian dead in the opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa in 1941.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Soldiers wave a national tricolor from a wagon in a train station in Romania during WW2.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Behind the scenes of the filming of The Last Assault (Noi, cei din linia întîi) - a war epic about the Romanian Army fighting in northern Transylvania, Hungary, & Slovakia at the end of WW2 - in the mid-1980s.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The cavalry officers of the 5th Roşiori Regiment in Bucharest at the turn of the last century.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A man dressed as Ştefan the Great, a renowned medieval ruler of Moldavia (signaling a rejection of the 1812 annexation of Bessarabia by Russia & Soviet claims to that territory after WW1), during the July 1942 celebration of a year since the expulsion of Soviet occupiers.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A Soviet soldier raises a red banner over Chişinău, soon to be more commonly referred to as Kishinev, in early September 1944.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hungarian soldiers parade through Cluj, soon to be Kolozsvár, in early September 1940 after Romania agreed to a German-Italian decision, the Second Vienna Award, to cede northern Transylvania.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The second edition of *War Letters from the Year of Romanian Bravery 1941* consisting of Romanian soldiers' correspondence collected & edited over six months by Alexander Lascarov-Moldovanu.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Medical staff at the entrance to a military internal zone hospital in Romania in 1941.

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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The situation of the metropolitan seat of Bukovina between May 1940 and March 1941 is fascinating. King Carol II basically forced Visarion Puiu to resign because of his pro-German and pro-Iron Guard position and Simedrea was brought in to replace him. When the National Legionary State was... 1/

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The 18 June 1943 special issue of *The Bee* celebrating two years since Romania joined Operation Barbarossa. Several examples of pages with "heroic poetry inspired by the holy war" as well as songs & poems from Romanian-occupied Ukraine (Transnistria).

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A wedding of a Roma coachman & an ethnic Romanian fruit seller in Piteşti in 1941. One of many couples getting officially married to receive death benefits of soldiers. He returned from Soviet captivity in 1949 to find many of his family died after deportation to Transnistria. 1/

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A German soldier in November 1941 explores wrecked Soviet armor in Union Square in Bucharest taken as trophies by the Romanian Army.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Romanian political cartoon about the Second Balkan War of 1913. Romania beats Bulgaria with a branch, held down by Greece & Serbia with Montenegro bringing more branches, while the Ottoman Empire looks on laughing.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A communist era booklet of the National Committee of the Veterans of the Anti-Fascist War in Romania identifying its holder as a veteran & at which rank he served.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Romanian soldiers during an interwar excerise with anti-gas equipment.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The entrance to a building in Bucharest in summer 1941 festooned with portraits of King Mihai I, Adolf Hitler, Marshal Ion Antonescu, & Benito Mussolini & well as the flags & banners of Nazi Germany, Romania, & Fascist Italy.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A receipt for donations of "old materials for the needs of our war" to the Patronage Council for Social Works, a sort of competitor to the Romanian Red Cross, during WW2.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A reproduction & translation of a 1970 letter from Erich von Manstein to Ion Emilian, the editor of the exile publication Stindardul (The Standard), after reading an article on the death of Radu Korne in a commumist prison praising his former comrade-in-arms in Crimea during WW2.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

General Leonard Mociulschi, as commander of the Romanian 3rd Mountain Division in WW2.

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