Ion Antonescu

Ion Antonescu (June 15 1882, Pite?ti – June 1 1946, near Jilava) was the prime minister and conduc?tor (Leader) of Romania during World War II from September 4, 1940 to August 23, 1944.

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Antonescu was born into a bourgeois family with some military tradition. He attended military schools in Craiova and Ia?i, and graduated the Cavalry School as top of class in 1904, then, in 1911, the military academy.

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As lieutenant, Antonescu took part in the repression of the 1907 peasants' revolt in and around the city of Gala?i. In 1913, he participated in the Second Balkan War against Bulgaria, winning Romania's highest military decoration. During Romania's involvement in World War I (1916-1918), Antonescu acted as chief-of-staff for Marshal Constantin Prezan. In this position, he was the architect of the Romanian army's successful defense against the attempted invasion of Moldavia by German troops headed by Field Marshal Mackensen, in the second half of 1917 (the rest of Romania had already been occupied by the Germans in late 1916).

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Pite?ti: Pite?ti (population: 168,000) is a city in Arge? county of the Wallachia region of Romania, on the Arge? river....

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