General Ioan Dumitrache, Portrait of a Legend Commander of the 2nd Mountain Division – “Divizia de Cremene”
General Ioan Dumitrache, Portrait of a Legend Commander of the 2nd Mountain Division – “Divizia de Cremene”

Summary/Abstract: The activity and the memoirs of General Ion Dumitrache are undoubtedly important, if not capital, for knowing our history and especially the history of the Second World War. It is notorious that Mountain Troops represented the only elite troops of the Romanian Infantry during the entire Eastern Campaign.In today’s jargon a kind of “green berets”. The best known of them was the2nd Mountain Division.The courage of the fighters under the command of General Dumitrache made the 2nd Mountain Division to acquire on the front a well-deserved renown,in sync with the determination demonstrated by the troops of that great unit: “Divizia de Cremene”. Historian Alesandru Duţu noted in his most recent volume that “General Dumitrache led large units of the Romanian Army that reached the easternmost point in the Second World War. The Romanian troops under his command fought in the Caucasus Mountains, the 2nd Romanian Mountain Division reaching close to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya!”

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