by Ana Maria Schiopu | Jan 30, 2020 | Austria, Hungary, World War I in 1918
The war did not take into account profession. Horațiu Deacu was a teacher in 1914, when he left for the front. Between August 12 and October 21, 1914 he kept a diary, which was published by his family in 1930. There, on the Galician Front, the Romanian who was... 
by Iulian Simbeteanu | Jan 25, 2020 | Romania
The “Romanian Patriotic Mission”, which was sent by the Great General Headquarters of the Romanian army to the United States, in April 1917, in order to convince the authorities in Washington of the need to organize a Legion from the Romanians residing in the United... 
by Ciprian Stoleru | Jan 23, 2020 | Romania
On November 4, 1918, the Austro-Hungarian High Command signed the Armistice of Villa Giusti in Padua. The armistice also required all remaining German troops to leave Romania until November 19. The withdrawal of Mackensen’s army from Romania was to be made through... 
by Iulian Simbeteanu | Jan 20, 2020 | Romania
On February 23, 1917, an order issued by the Romanian Ministry of War in Iași provided for the establishment of the Russian and Transylvanian Volunteer Corps in Russia, made up of Romanians from the Austro-Hungarian army, who had been captured by the Russians. On the... 
by Iulian Simbeteanu | Jan 17, 2020 | Romania
The military disaster in the autumn of 1916 led to a large number of Romanian prisoners being taken into Central Powers’ prison camps. The difficulties faced by the Romanian authorities at the end of 1916 and the beginning of 1917 led to a reduced concern for the fate...