Attitudes et actions des militaires roumains de Bessarabie dans le contexte de l’évacuation du territoire cédé en 1940
Attitudes and military actions in Bessarabia within the context of the evacuation of the territory surrendered in 1940

Summary/Abstract: 1940 was for Romania a year of surrendering without a fight some of the territories which had been restored to the country in 1918. Guilty of this were, mainly, King Carol II and his tendence, as well as the army leaders of the time. The surrendering of Bessarabia and North of Bukovina raised different attitudes among the people and soldiers from these territories. The attitudes, seen by some as betrayal or desertion, were generated by the unclearness of conception and action of the decision-making political and military factors, by the presence of non-Romanian elements in the military structures, by the raging anti- Romanian propaganda carried out by the Soviets. The analyses made subsequently at the level of the General Staff regarding some attitudes of the military from Bessarabia in 1940 are, apparently, accurate, but, at the same time, subjective, eluding the causes which led to them.

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