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Oral history interview with King Michael I of Romania

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.255 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0420

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    Oral history interview with King Michael I of Romania

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    King Michael I of Romania, born on October 25, 1921 in Sinaia, Romania, discusses growing up and receiving a very diverse education; his father’s tumultuous reign in the early 1930s; the emergence of an extreme rightist movement, including the Iron Guard, in Romania in the 1930s; how his father never divulged his opinions about Jews; knowing what was happening with Hitler in Germany; meeting with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 but not discussing the Munich Accords; his father’s reorganization of the Front of National Rebirth in Romania; the Iron Guard’s murder of prime minister Armand Calinescu; his father’s decision to invite some Iron Guard members into the government in 1940; becoming king after his father abdicated in 1941; dealing with General Antonescu, who had recently become Prime Minister, established a state with the Iron Guard, and gained the support of Hitler; the Iron Guard Rebellion and the terrible violence against the Jews; Antonescu’s decision to declare war against the Russians without telling him; Antonescu’s deportation of many Jews from Romania; his and his mother’s attempts to stop the deportations; attempting to convince Antonescu to stop the deportations; dismissing Antonescu from office and then signing his death sentence two years later; and his frustration with the entire wartime and post-war period.
    Interviewee
    King Michael I
    Interviewer
    Mr. Paul A. Shapiro
    Date
    interview:  2001 November 12

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    4 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    Garda de Fier

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with King Michael I of Romania on November 12, 2001. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in February 2002.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:02:46
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