Fraţiile de Cruce: Rezerva de cadre legionare
The Brotherhood of the Cross: Extra legionary staff

Summary/Abstract: This study, based almost exclusively on documents provided by the Archive of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, aims to reveal some aspects of a less studied topic so far: the activity of the Brotherhood of the Cross, a Romanian organization that could be, up to a certain extent, compared to the German Hitlerjungen. The set up of the Brotherhood of the Cross was envisaged by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu in 1923; according to him, this organization was meant to be „the Romanian youth elite body able to create valiant soldiers of tomorrow’s Romania”. In fact, Brotherhood of the Cross was an annex of the Legionary Movement, since its members (young people age from 14 to 20 years old) were, among other things, trained to carry and handle weapons and help the Legion in various aspects of its anti-democratic, anti-Semitic and subversive activity.

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