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Historian of the Romanian Army in WW2. Works at US Army Center of Military History.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 13h
Romania marks the National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust. The date refers to the start of deportations of Jews, survivors of waves of atrocities by Romanian troops & local civilians plus German soldiers & SS-men, from Bessarabia & Bukovina to Transnistria 85 years ago today.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A Romanian officer appears to upbraid a peasant who has just turned over a horse to a requisition center in Iaşi in fall 1944. Note the peasant's bare feet & the officer's ring.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A chart of royal ciphers on the epaulettes of soldiers in certain elite units in the Romanian Army from 1914 to 1930 including those of Nicholas II (of Russia), Elisabeta, Carol I, Ferdinand I, Marie, Alexander I (of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes), & Mihai I.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah. There's also a version in Romanian. The author now lives and works in the UK and the publisher agreed to let him translate what he wrote and publish it because of some interest from colleagues there.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A new book from Editura Militară.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Romanian mountain troops pose for the camera while training at Săcele, near Braşov, in 1943.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A baccalaureate diploma from the Saints Peter & Paul High School in Ploeşti from 1943.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Romanian family circa 1940. The father wears a Commemorative Cross of the 1916-1918 War.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
King Carol I (left), Crown Prince Ferdinand (right), & Prince Carol (center) at the pontoon bridge raised by the Romanian Army over the Danube River at Nikopol during the Second Balkan War in 1913.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I swear to be faithful to the King & the interests of my Country." A copy of the new oath taken by Romanian soldiers after King Mihai I removed Marshal Antonescu from power on 23 August 1944.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
King Mihai I of Romania having an Easter meal with soldiers in 1941.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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
Romanian officers 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 · 21/09/2026
A Bucharest tram pass from 1942.
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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 street corner in Bucharest in 1942.
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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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