Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Chioveanu, Mihai
Year: 2008
Title: Death Delivered, Death Postponed. Romania And The Continent-wide Holocaust
Journal: Studia Hebraica
Issue: 8
Pages: 136-169
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, holocaust, Antonescu regime, military, World War II, politics
Abstract: (En) The aim of the present study is to provide an adequate explanation for Romania's gradual shift from total commitment to, to outright defiance of, the Nazi Final Solution. My chief interest is with delineating the reasons and motivations behind the Romanian Government's decision not to hand over half of its Jews to the Nazis. Issues that are equally significant and helpful in understanding the process which ultimately led to Romania's Disengagement from the Nazi Final Solution, most, if not all, of them already considered and sometimes reconsidered by other historians, will be analyzed in a wider, European context, as the dynamic of the Final Solution at large, the Nazi perspective on the events, their plans, expectation and so on; might help us understand some inner developments of Romania's semi-independent genocide.