In the autumn of 1917, the Emperor of Germany visited occupied Romania. Wilhelm II took advantage of Germany’s successes on the Western Front, in Flanders, to visit the Eastern Front, that was stabilized in the summer of the same year in the aftermath of the...
The German occupation of the capital of Romania during the First World War was also marked by a bizarre incident, of a religious nature. On February 17, 1918, about 20 Bulgarian soldiers, allies of the Germans, stole the relics of Saint Dimitri Basarabov, considered...