Romania and the International Relationship at the Beginning the Two World Conflagration

• Author: Stefan Gheorghe
• Position: Senior Lecturer, PhD, Danubius University of Galati, Romania
• Pages: 496-502

European Integration - Realities and Perspectives. Proceedings 2020

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Romania and the International Relationship at the

Beginning the Two World Conflagration

Stefan Gheorghe1

Abstract: Obviously, in terms of Romania’s participation in World War II, from a historiographic point of

view, the situation would allow a certain thoroughness of studying the respective period, turning often to

gradations of the interpretation given to the historical events. (Şuţa, 1982; Anescu, Bantea, & Cupşa, 1966;

Militara & Militara, 1989) Throughout the war, the main opponents of Nazi Germany, the Big Three, would

clearly state their position on the political future of Germany, and especially on the territories entered in

one way or another under the trusteeship or control of the Third Reich, addressing the need for redeeming

their freedom and independence. For the Central and East European countries, the removal of the German

military occupation would in most cases coincide with the establishment of Soviet control, the immediate

consequences being the communization of the Central and South Easte rn Europe. When analyzing more

closely the twentieth century, we can see that the paradox of contemporary history is constituted by the

causes, deployment and consequences of the Second World War. Initially triggered by Hitlerite Germany

on September 1st, 1939, in order to create and strengthen the vital space so necessary to the “Aryan race”,

it had great implications and echoes from the start, all over the world, so that the West’s media and public

opinion ultimately determined the Western democracies to intervene to prevent Nazi domination in Europe.

Keywords: Second World War; Hitlerite Germany; control of the Third Reich

Throughout the war, the main opponents of Nazi Germany, the Big Three, would clearly state their

position on the political future of Germany, and especially on the territories entered in one way or

another under the trusteeship or control of the Third Reich, addressing the need for redeeming their

freedom and independence. For the Central and East European countries, the removal of the German

military occupation would in most cases coincide with the establishment of Soviet control, the

immediate consequences being the communization of the Central and South Eastern Europe.

Soviet expansion in Europe and the Far East would be underestimated by the Anglo-American

representatives during high-level meetings held with the Soviet state officials throughout the

conflagration, favoring a genuine lack of alternative available to this area at the end of the war. The

attitude of the Anglo-Americans was therefore ambiguous in this regard, but a strong stand in this regard,

urged by the political representatives of the opposition from the states recently Sovietized by the Soviets,

would be adopted somewhat later when Kremlin’s intentions of expansion and establishment of popular

democracies would directly threaten Western states (Baciu, 1996, pp. 228-229; Winkler, 1996, pp. 36;

46-48; 54; Arhivele Nationale ale Romaniei/National Archives of Romania, 1996, p. 460).

1 Senior Lecturer, PhD, Danubius University of Galati, Romania, Address: 3 Galati Blvd., 800654 Galati, Romania, Tel.:

+40372361102, Fax: +40372361290, Corresponding author: constantin.tanase@univ-danubius.ro.