23 August 1944: Romania's Changing of Arms

23 August 1944: Romania's Changing of Arms
With Dr. Grant T. Harward
Part of our 80th Anniversary Series
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Also part of our Romania in WWII playlist
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The 1944 Romanian coup d'état, better known in Romanian historiography as the Act of 23 August, was led by King Michael I of Romania in the summer of 1944. With the support of several political parties, the king removed the government of Ion Antonescu, which had aligned Romania with Nazi Germany, after the Axis front in northeastern Romania collapsed in the face of a successful Soviet offensive. The Romanian Army declared a unilateral ceasefire with the Soviet Red Army on the Moldavian front, an event viewed as decisive in the Allied advances against the Axis powers in the European theatre of World War II. Dr Harward joins us to talk about this key moment in Romania's history and the impact of the wider battle for Hungary and Austria.

Dr Grant T. Harward earned an BA in History from Brigham Young University, MSc in SWW in Europe from Uni of Edinburgh in Scotland, and PhD in History from Texas A&M University. He is a Former Fulbright scholar and fellow at the Mandel Center at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Currently a historian with the US Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage.

Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust by Grant T. Harward
USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97815017...
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Romanias-Hol...

Romania 1944: The Turning of Arms against Nazi Germany by Grant Harward
USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97815017...
UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978147...

Other appearances by Grant on WW2TV:
Operation Barbarossa was a Close-run thing. A WWII Myths show
https://youtube.com/live/1vxeY2f4fl4
Romania's Holy War: From Operation Barbarossa to Iaşi-Chişinău Offensive
https://youtube.com/live/b-IA2K8ADkY

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