Thorpe, Nick (25. oktober 2011). «Romania's ex-king defends war record». BBC News (på engelsk). Besøkt 2. mars 2020. «The king's moment of glory came in August 1944, when he requested a meeting with Marshal Antonescu, and demanded his resignation. "What - and leave the country in the hands of a child?" Antonescu retorted. The king uttered a coded phrase, and three soldiers and a captain, listening in the next room, entered and arrested the furious marshal. A provisional government was formed, and an armistice announced - an end to hostilities with Soviet troops who were already pressing towards Romania's borders.»
Lorman, Tom (1. februar 2009). «Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and his Regime, Romania 1940-1944». The English Historical Review. 506 (på engelsk). CXXIV: 239–241. ISSN0013-8266. doi:10.1093/ehr/cen381. Besøkt 2. mars 2020. «Marshal Ion Antonescu is, perhaps, the most controversial figure in modern Romanian history. That country's leader from 1940 to 1944, he was executed, at the end of the war, for ordering Romania's participation in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and for crimes against humanity. Even, however, before the post-war Communist regime met its own demise, efforts were underway to secure the Marshal's rehabilitation»
Korb, Alexander (1. oktober 2016). «Homogenizing southeastern Europe, 1912–99: ethnic cleansing in the Balkans revisited». Journal of Genocide Research. 4. 18: 377–387. ISSN1462-3528. doi:10.1080/14623528.2016.1236603. Besøkt 2. mars 2020. «In September 1940, Romania was forced to transfer the territory of Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. Both states agreed in the Treaty of Craiova that 80,000 Romanians had to leave their homes and move north, and 65,000 Bulgarians who lived on Romanian territory were forced to relocate to Bulgaria.»
Liedtke, Gregory (2. januar 2015). «Lost in the Mud: The (Nearly) Forgotten Collapse of the German Army in the Western Ukraine, March and April 1944». The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 1. 28: 215–238. ISSN1351-8046. doi:10.1080/13518046.2015.998134. Besøkt 3. mars 2020. «With only three of its nine original armored and motorized divisions remaining, the army group, though joined by the remnants of the shattered 20. Panzer Division transferred from Heeresgruppe Mitte, proved incapable of successfully defending itself against the Soviet Jassy-Kishinev Offensive launched on 20 August. Once the Red Army breeched the Axis frontline, the lack of significantly powerful mobile reserves rendered the Germans almost helpless when highly mobile Soviet tank and mechanized units poured through the resulting gaps. As the Axis position collapsed, Romania switched sides and joined the Allies on 23 August.»
Kaplan, Robert D. «The Antonescu Paradox». Foreign Policy (på engelsk). Besøkt 19. april 2020. «Marshal Ion Antonescu’s Romania was Adolf Hitler’s second-most important Axis ally after Benito Mussolini’s Italy (and one might easily consider Antonescu more formidable and useful from Hitler’s point of view than Mussolini was). Antonescu contributed 585,000 Romanian troops to the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union from June to October 1941.»
Kaplan, Robert D. «The Antonescu Paradox». Foreign Policy (på engelsk). Besøkt 20. april 2020. «But in Romania proper — Moldavia, Wallachia, and southern Transylvania — Antonescu kept up to 375,000 Jews from local slaughter and transport to death camps in German-occupied Poland. This was something that would likely not have happened had the fascist Iron Guard remained as part of his government in Bucharest; these Legionnaires comprised a paramilitary force that combined extreme anti-Semitism with a radicalized and overtly mystical version of Orthodox Christianity.»
Lorman, Tom (1. februar 2009). «Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and his Regime, Romania 1940-1944». The English Historical Review. 506 (på engelsk). CXXIV: 239–241. ISSN0013-8266. doi:10.1093/ehr/cen381. Besøkt 2. mars 2020. «Marshal Ion Antonescu is, perhaps, the most controversial figure in modern Romanian history. That country's leader from 1940 to 1944, he was executed, at the end of the war, for ordering Romania's participation in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and for crimes against humanity. Even, however, before the post-war Communist regime met its own demise, efforts were underway to secure the Marshal's rehabilitation»
Lorman, Tom (1. februar 2009). «Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and his Regime, Romania 1940-1944». The English Historical Review. 506 (på engelsk). CXXIV: 239–241. ISSN0013-8266. doi:10.1093/ehr/cen381. Besøkt 2. mars 2020. «Marshal Ion Antonescu is, perhaps, the most controversial figure in modern Romanian history. That country's leader from 1940 to 1944, he was executed, at the end of the war, for ordering Romania's participation in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and for crimes against humanity. Even, however, before the post-war Communist regime met its own demise, efforts were underway to secure the Marshal's rehabilitation»
Korb, Alexander (1. oktober 2016). «Homogenizing southeastern Europe, 1912–99: ethnic cleansing in the Balkans revisited». Journal of Genocide Research. 4. 18: 377–387. ISSN1462-3528. doi:10.1080/14623528.2016.1236603. Besøkt 2. mars 2020. «In September 1940, Romania was forced to transfer the territory of Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. Both states agreed in the Treaty of Craiova that 80,000 Romanians had to leave their homes and move north, and 65,000 Bulgarians who lived on Romanian territory were forced to relocate to Bulgaria.»
Liedtke, Gregory (2. januar 2015). «Lost in the Mud: The (Nearly) Forgotten Collapse of the German Army in the Western Ukraine, March and April 1944». The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 1. 28: 215–238. ISSN1351-8046. doi:10.1080/13518046.2015.998134. Besøkt 3. mars 2020. «With only three of its nine original armored and motorized divisions remaining, the army group, though joined by the remnants of the shattered 20. Panzer Division transferred from Heeresgruppe Mitte, proved incapable of successfully defending itself against the Soviet Jassy-Kishinev Offensive launched on 20 August. Once the Red Army breeched the Axis frontline, the lack of significantly powerful mobile reserves rendered the Germans almost helpless when highly mobile Soviet tank and mechanized units poured through the resulting gaps. As the Axis position collapsed, Romania switched sides and joined the Allies on 23 August.»
