Place · Eastern Europe
Bucharest
Political center of interwar Romania and the Iron Guard.
44.4353°N 26.0980°E · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Bucharest ↗
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Romanian Jewry combined Germanized elites, Yiddish-speaking masses, and Hungarian-speaking communities.
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The Iron Guard, founded in 1927 and led by Codreanu, joined fascism, mystical Christianity, and antisemitism.
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The brief 1938 Goga-Cuza government imposed Nuremberg-inspired laws, and by 1939 at least 270,000 Jews had lost citizenship.