Romania’s reluctance to reckon with its past also stems from the prominence of intellectuals who supported fascism. Writers ...

During World War Two, when Romania was under the military dictatorship of Marshall Ion Antonescu, up to 380,000 Jews were killed in Romanian state-held territories. Thousands more were sent to the ...

a movement allied to the Nazis and responsible for numerous atrocities during World War II. He has also questioned Romania’s Nato membership, and recently said that if elected he will ban ...

King Michael ruled Romania twice, from 1927 to 1930 and then from 1940 to 1947, before the communist government ended the monarchy. He was one of the last surviving World War Two leaders ...