Talk:Iron Guard

message: The first paragraph of the Sima's brief ascendancy section reads
"In the first months of World War II, Romania was officially neutral, but leaned heavily toward the Axis Powers, allowing the German troops to pass through on their way into Poland.".
I made a similar comment on Romania during World War II which contained a similar phrase, and it was fixed: if you take a look at a  it's pretty obvious that Germany needs no permission from Romania to find their way into Poland. --Gutza 14:59, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. You want to edit here in parallel fashion, or should I? --Jmabel 23:42, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: Gutza, I'd appreciate if you review my revised version. It's parallel to how we changed Romania during World War II. -- Jmabel 18:17, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Romania allows German troops to pass through to Poland

message: An anon recently changed my phrase "taking on the role of a royal dictator" to "re-establishing the absolute monarchy". I leave it to someone else to decide which is better wording. I had specifically avoided the term "absolute monarchy" because of its connotation of Divine Right, which he certainly was not claiming. I don't believe there was a change in the theory of sovereignty, just in the practice of rule. -- Jmabel|Talk 00:35, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
:Agreed, reverted. Yes, late, but not never. :-) --Gutza 00:14, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "royal dictator" vs. "absolute monarchy"

message: These edits by Sam Spade are arguably defensible as NPOVing the article, but some of this feels to me like what I've come to think of as the "war on vivid writing" in Wikpedia; but I shouldn't make the judgment, because the writing in question is mine. I'd appreciate, though, if a third party would have a look and see what they think. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:48, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: John, would you please revert what you think is appropriate to revert? I suspect that, since Sam is no fool, some of his edits of me are likely to be correct, but I don't feel I should be the one to make that judgment. This is not a topic on which I am easily neutral. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing style 

message: I realize that "Everything for the Country" is a more literal translation of "Totul pentru Ţară" than "Everything for the Fatherland", and is occasionally used in English, but I believe that "Everything for the Fatherland" is the more common English-language name, both then and now. At the very least, it deserves mention as a common English-language name. It is the name used by both Encarta  and Britannica ; interestingly, the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania refers  (PDF) to "Everything for the Motherland", which I'd never seen before. I'll leave one Romanian daytime (just beginning as I write) for someone else to comment before I edit. -- Jmabel | Talk 08:00, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmmm, the thing is that there are other mor elaborate synonims for Country (Tara) in Romanian like glie stramoseasca or the simple patrie which would be better suited for Fatherland. But taking acount the fascist context, I think it is more apporpriate to translate Totul pentru Tara as Everything for the Fatherland. --Orioane 08:21, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In any case, this is now covered in an extensive footnote, indicating the different choices made by different translators. - Jmabel | Talk 18:17, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fatherland" or "Country"? 

message: This has a cleanup tag on it, but no indication of what someone thinks is wrong with the article. I noticed, and fixed, a problem in the footnote mechanism. Was there anything else? If not, the tag should be removed. - Jmabel | Talk 18:17, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup?

message: 1) "The royal dictatorship was brief". This is not true: it lasted 2 years and 7 months. The previous Romanian governments were corrupt, but at least they were more or less democratic. Royal dictatorship, however, was a dictatorship in the full sence: many public and personal liberties were suppresed. In turn it provided the "moral" justification for the "National Legionary State" and the Antonescu regime, which were also dictatorships. No democratic parties participated in government since 1938. I think this point  must be mentioned in the article,  because it provides one of the reasons of Iron Guard's ascendancy in popular mind.
2) It must be mentioned that Iron Guard supported the Franco's uprising in Spain, while other political parties officially remained neutral
3) From the article it is not clear that the charismatic leadership, that was assasinated prior to 1940, was only declaratively anti-semitic, and that no actual pogroms occured prior to 1940-41. This however should not hinder to mention up and sound that Iron Guard members killed many Jews in 1940-41. This point is important to explain the way Iron Guard is persived nowadays in Romania
4) The most important shortcome of the article is in my oppinion: How did Iond Guard so suddenly switched in September 1940 from a persecuted organizetion to a party with 50% of givernment posts? It must be mentioned that in June and then in August 1940 King Carol II government agreed to ceed importsnt portioned of Romanian territory (about 1/3) to Soviet Union, Hungary, and Bulgaria due to Soviet ultimatum as result of Molotov-Ribbentrop parc and to the Vienna dictate of Germany and Italy. As a result, there was a general uprising in Romania. It was not organized, but spontaneous and popular. King Carol II had to abdicate (for the 4th time) and WAS FORMALLY FORBIDDEN TO ENTER ROMANIA EVER SINCE (September 1940). All political parties were dissolved at that time, and the only orginized forces which profited were the reminants of the Iron Guard, led by Horia Sima, and the military, led by Chief of General Stuff General Antonescu. In the first months the government was very popular!
5) "The Iron Guard have become infamous for their participation in the Holocaust. In The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg writes, "There were... instances when the Germans actually had to step in to restrain and slow down the pace of the Romanian measures." The annihilation of the Jews of eastern Romania (including Bessarabia, Bucovina, Transnistria, and the city of Iaşi) had more the character of a pogrom than of the well-organized transports and camps of the Germans."
Only the first sentance is correct. The events in June 1940 in Iasi, and the deportation of the Jews from Bassarabia, Bucovina and Botosani district to ghetos in Transnistria (which only 20% would survive) occured after Iron Guard was removed from power, and was largely performed by Gandarmery (militarised police). Rather then attributing wrong dids to Iron Guard it would be wise simply to mention that Iron Guard were the main ideological promoters of anti-semitism in Romania of 1930-40s, which is no small did. One should mention clearly that it was during the coup (the 3 days) of 1941 that about 400 Jews were killed (by Iron Guard) in Bucharest, Ploiesti and Iasi. One can also mention that like in other countries there were anti-semitic laws in Romania from 1920s: Jews were forbidden to occupy political posts, and practice some professions, such as Law. Iron Guard supported and achieved in 1940 harsher laws.
6) One can mention that Horia Sima lived in peace in Germany after WWII (he led (ideologically) several divisions of Romanians fighting on the Germany side even after and Romania switched sides in August 1940), and died in 1993 witnessing the fall of communism, unlike Cordeanu who died in 1938 without seeing the ascension of legionarism to power.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.147.5.45 (talk • contribs) 30 July 2006.
:1) I assume that we can agree that the royal dictatorship began after the dismissal of Octavian Goga on February 11, 1938 (and, by the way, if we want to talk undemocratic, it's not as if Goga's partly had much popular support). When you say "2 years and 7 months" I gather that you are saying that the country continued to be a royal dictatorship until Carol abdicated. I have never seen a historian characterize it that way; do you have a source that says so?
:2) I have no idea whether any other Romanian party endorsed Franco's Nationalists. Do you have a source on the claim that none did?
:3) "only declaratively anti-semitic"? One does not have to mass murder Jews to be more than "declaratively anti-semitic". By this standard, the Nazis themselves were only "declaratively anti-semitic" at least until Kristallnacht and arguably until the Wannsee Conference.
:4) I have no comment on the popularity or otherwise of the National Legionary State (certainly they had ardent supporters; I would imagine that few of their opponents would have dared to show their opposition publicly, and it's not like we have a reliable opinion poll. If we want to go into the background of Carol's downfall, it seems to me that what happened was that Carol held out against Nazi encroachment and sought a Western and a Balkan alliance long enough to be viewed by Hitler as an enemy; finally, in stages, he bowed to the inevitable because Britain and France offered no meaningful support; he chose not to fight in the East because if he had, then Romania would have had a bloody defeat instead of a relatively bloodless one; Hitler conned him into thinking Romanian would get a fair shake at the Second Vienna arbitration, but basically treated him as a whipping boy from the moment he showed up; he went down in flames. There were several times along the way that the Iron Guard, at Hitler's behest, raised the ante of violence, most notably when Carol traveled to the UK and France seeking a Western alliance. (By the way, the Iron Guard tried to ambush Carol's train on the way out of the country.)
:5) Yes, this does seem to conflate the Iron Guard with Romania in general during the war, probably inappropriately. There is a relationship, it needs to be stated, but the passage as it stands oversimplifies.
:6) I don't know much about Simia postwar. Again, do you have sources on this?
: I'd appreciate if some others would weigh in on this. I'm pretty knowledgable on this for an American, but I imagine that there are several people working on this page who know this history in far more detail than I do. - Jmabel | Talk 04:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: With reference to this odd claim, I refer you to our article on the Wiesel Commission and especially to the Commission report itself, linked from that page. - Jmabel | Talk 00:51, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Several observations about the historical accuracy

message: I have to explain my last edit summary. I had not read the entire sentence, and I mistakenly thought that the edit in question was referring to the Iromn Guard's exile in Germany, and that someone had added (insttead of removed) "death" in front of "camps". Thus, I was under the impression that it was being implied that they were victims of the Nazis... Sorry, I'm quite tired and I've taken off my glasses... Dahn 03:36, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dahn, are you sure you don't want to re-read that? (I think either version is fine, but, yes, your original summary shows that you were misreading at the time.) - Jmabel | Talk 20:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  On the other hand the article says On January 24, 1941 Antonescu successfully suppressed a Legion-inspired military coup, resulting in the Legion being forced out of a governing role and losing its government protection. So since they where not in power you should tell what kind of involvement had The Iron Guard in Bessarabia, Bukovina and Iasi. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.181.95.114 (talk) 10:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Explanation

message: The Iron Guard Regime was in power since September 14, 1940 until January 21, 1941 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.181.95.114 (talk) 09:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Just a remark

message: This article has helped me so much!  I never understood why Mr. Eliade's works have offended me so much, even though he is "famous" and I am "supposed" to appreciate him.  Also it explained a few things my mother told me.  She used to say that the history teacher would have to use body language to tell the students when he was lying to them in school!  She was born in 1944 in Romania.  71.169.171.54 15:03, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank You 

message: I added the term "anti-Hungarian" because of the anti-Hungarian component of the minority policy of the Iron Guard. 
Very often anti-Semitic actions went together with anti-Hungarian actions. (Very often a-S actions were considered as a-H actions and other way round.)
Just one example: The meeting of the Legion in Oradea on December 5, 1927 in Oradea ended in a pogrom where many Jewish and Hungarian shops and restaurants where destroyed.
I agree with Dahn that the Iron Guard was not "especially" anti-Hungarian, but is was also not especially anti-Semitic, not especially religious, etc.
I would agree if we could find another solution to mention the anti-Hungarian aspect.
Varoujan
:It was actually both especially antisemitic and religious. One would have to rate it being anti-Hungarian as an aspect of it being nationalist, whereas antisemitism and claim to Christian inspiration set it apart among the nationalist standard of the day (and, of the two, the latter made it diverge from other Romanian chauvinist movements). To my knowledge, the Iron Guard did not have an explicit goal of attacking Hungarians in Romania, and Codreanu was cool but respectful toward Hungarian fascists. Nagy-Talavera, who was both Hungarian and Jewish, made a note of this in his book, and there are, to my knowledge, few commentators that even bother to comment on the supposed trait. It being anti-Hungarian, is, basically, equivalent to it being anti-Ukrainian or anti-Bulgarian, and is arguably less important than it being anti-Romani (it was the Iron Guard government who first legislated anti-Ziganism) or anti-Catholic. In my view, such attitudes it had should be detailed a bit lower in the text - the article as it is deserves a makeover and much more sources, but that is likely to be a consuming task. Dahn 23:37, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-Hungarian aspect 

message: Originally as an IP i noticed a template of wikiproject:judaism on the hugo Chavez talk page, I thought it should be removed because  the POV of Chavez being anisemitic was highly contentious, and it was no defining moment in his policy. After putting my point on the prokect's talkpage they told me that wikiproject Judaism does not deal with anti-semitism except in very specific issues. They said that it was probably a bot of sorts that had been going around adding the templates. Therefore if wikiproject Judaism does not deal with antisemitism, its tempalte should probably not be here (I admit not to reading the whole article, there could be something specifically project related). I therefore propose removing the template, but its up to you guys, its merely a matter of what should be here and what should not, NOTE: I am not at all against the fact that the Iron Guard was anti-semitic, but wikiproject Judaism states it dosent deal with with anti-semitism.R.G.P.A (talk) 00:36, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Either way is fine by me. Dahn (talk) 00:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Template

message: would someone please change the section in which the Iron Guard is blamed for atrocities commited 6 months after they were removed from power and when most members were either exiled or imprisoned? I tried to change it but someone reverted my edit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.6.200.40 (talk) 17:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron Guard & Holocaust Involvement 

message: My contribution is about the sentence (quoted from the main article): << Particularly gruesome was the murder of dozens of Jewish civilians in the Bucharest slaughterhouse. After the victims were killed, the perpetrators hung the bodies from meat hooks and mutilated them in a vicious parody of kosher slaughtering practices >>.
Several articles written by romanian historians are proving with original documents that the "celebrated" massacre of the Bucharest's slaughterhouse is a fake. Since there are documents (see short bibliography below) proving the fake, I demand to the contributors to erase the sentence (quoted above) from the article.
Briefly, about the facts: Act I: (1941) The Ion Antonescu's regime was decided to put discredit onto the legionnaries, thus some fake photos have been made by the Siguranta Statului, and all the collective protests of the workers from the slaughterhouse have been passed under silence. Act II: (1947), the pro-soviet communist regime begun in Romania a series of trials in order to punish the war (or civil war) criminals. In one of this trials, the former chief of Bucarest slaughterhouse, Dr. Aurel Naghel, was accused precisely in connection with the facts exposed in the wiki's article. All the people being employees of the slaughterhouse in 1941 have been interrogated and all of them (about 40 people) have signed a testimony in which they declared that that there was no incident of this type in the slaughterhouse. There was no evidence about the names of the potential victims nor about what the corps became, etc. The trial finished with a no pursuite issue, since there were no proofs in order to accuse people. Not because the accused people were the wrong ones, but because the FACT (the crime) was wrong. The documents of this trial can be consulted, and the scan of the declaration of the employees even circulated on internet. Among the sources:
"Express Magazin" Nr. 87, 25 March 1992,
Răzvan Codrescu, În căutarea Legiunii pierdute, pag. 15
Radu Theodoru, A fost sau nu HOLOCAUST?, Editura Lucman, Bucureşti, 2003, pag. 198-212.
PS: I tried to be clear and precise, and to enumerate FACTS that the contributors to the article may not know, but they have the duty to take them into account. Since this is NOT a blog page, I ask to the contributor Dahn, what is the relevance (for the topic : "Iron Guard") of the discussion (see above) called "Thank You" (user: 71.169.171.54, 15:03, 18 July 2007). I think that if some rules have to be respected for some people, then ALL people have to obey it.
PisikaA (talk) 23:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron Guard & Holocaust Involvement: some lies 

message: There are at least some arguments for the label christian socialist to apply to the iron guard. Their own literature talks about their socialism as much as their nationalsim (see: https://archive.org/stream/ForMyLegionariesTheIronGuard/ForMyLegionaries_djvu.txt ) and definitely all within a christian context. So why aren't we including them under the christian socialist category as well as the national socialist category. As is already well remarked, they don't neatly fit in a number of ways. TMLutas (talk) 10:46, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was the Iron Guard Christian Socialist? 

message: The following is in the article, with no citation whatsoever:
Essentially, this states, as fact, in the article's narrative voice, a right-wing antisemitic view of the matter. - Jmabel | Talk 04:06, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That passage now removed, after I mentioned this at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous); I just now posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Romania, requesting further attention to this article. (I would have posted there rather than VP if I had been aware that the WikiProject is significantly active.) - Jmabel | Talk 04:52, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious issue of biased writing 

message: The adjective "sterilitate" is feminine, not masculine as stated in the citation.
Source:
https://dexonline.ro/definitie/sterilitate
86.34.23.153 (talk) 18:33, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation number 14 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Was this really needed? The new sidebar is of considerably lower quality, and is lacking even an image. Has anyone else noticed this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.95.49.167 (talk) 17:46, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  2604:2d80:e685:4400:257c:5f7:16d3:1dfa's restructuring 

message: A while ago I brought this up on Talk:Anti-Hungarian_sentiment, but Anti-Hungarian sentiment doesn't actually exist, outside of the the usual xenophobia that inevitably comes with nationalism, in countries  with a notable hungarian minority. The concept of "Anti-hungarian sentiment" is really just a conflation of this type of general xenophobia, with criticism of the Orban regime and legitimate historical greivances against Austria-Hungary to weave a persecution narrative that acts as a cornerstone of of hungarian right wing irredentist propaganda.
Not only that, but the body of the article doesn't support this classification, as the only mention of hungarian in the entire article are references to fascism in both Romania and Hungary, which leads me to believe that this is an artifact of an older version of thew article, that some people tried to shoehorn mentions of Anti-hungarian sentiment into, alongside antisemitism. 46.97.170.32 (talk) 13:25, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category: Political parties with anti-hungarian sentiment? 

message: I am having trouble reaching some of the sources for this, so I'm going to try to access them in other ways. If I don't find anything, I'm going to change the infobox name to something that has a source - like "Iron Guard" Carlp941 (talk) 16:41, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Everything for the Country" as a name