Plans for the Dislocation of the German Peasantry from Romania, 1945
Plans for the Dislocation of the German Peasantry from Romania, 1945

Summary/Abstract: Immediately after the coup d’état of August 23, 1944, the Romanian citizens of German origin lost the privileged status which they had enjoyed during the time of the Antonescu regime. After this date, they became the most oppressed ethnic group in the country. Only two days after the end of the war against the Soviet Union, on August 25, 1944, the General Inspectorate of the Gendarmerie asked the regional inspectorates, through the phone order no. 43.599, that, at the moment of its reception, they should arrest all the leaders of the German Ethnic Group from Romania, and all those who were organizing the resistance of the Saxon and Swabian population of Transylvania against the Romanian state.

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