Nazis in Bucharest!

by Craig Turp on November 24, 2008 · 0 comments

in Bucharest

 


More amazing photos from the Life archives here.

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1 Parmalat November 25, 2008 at 9:38 pm

I did not forget the Holocaust, how could I forget the Holocaust when relatives of the ones who escaped are now selling mobile phones on the street at Piata Sudului, or raping and killing innocent women in Italy or fighting with swords in the streets, etc… The Holocaust should have been taken to the end and all gypsies should have been killed and the whole Europe would have benefited!

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2 Bucharestian November 25, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Yeah, you’ve missed a single detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

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3 Parmalat November 25, 2008 at 1:35 pm

Wow, some very interesting pictures! And about the Nazis:
when I was young my grandmother used to tell me stories from the war and how it was like back then and she told me that the Nazis were educated guys and always treated the population correctly! Whereas after ’44 when the Russians came they took away food and horses from the people (this was happening at the countryside), they would beat people and rape women! She told me they were running women across the village and screaming like “hazaika hazaika iob tvoie mati” (she still remembers that screaming now after more than 60 years) and one evening 4 Russian soldiers came and they had horses and broke down the door of my great-grandfather’s home, beat him with the gun stock and ask him to give hay to the horses. But my great-grandfather didn’t have any hay and he took the Russians on boier Mitru’s property (boier = boyar I think, in English) where there was lots of hay and made a sign to the Russians to take it all and they allowed him to get back to his home and family.
So the Nazis were much better than the Allies, maybe they should have won the war!

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4 Bucharestian November 24, 2008 at 5:32 pm

“Whereas most others in Romania would have just ripped all the photos and posted them on their own sites, we did it with just one”
Overgeneralizing, using others’ bad to justify our bad and also pretending to be superior, isn’t it? ;)
Still, I think our actions should not rely almost entirely on what others would(n’t) do; life should be more personal a matter I dare say.
Anyway, it is interesting to see that all other pictures on the respective website refer to Modernist architecture and various sites in town, rather than Nazis. So you picked the flashy one to promote the (rather different) bunch. Hm.
N.B. Yeap, I am the bad guy.

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5 Bucharest Life November 24, 2008 at 5:12 pm

All we were doing was pointing people to some rather interesting photos. Whereas most others in Romania would have just ripped all the photos and posted them on their own sites, we did it with just one, referring people to the original post for the rest.

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6 Bucharestian November 24, 2008 at 2:30 pm

With all due respect, I do not get what you mean. It is a historic fact that Romania was one of the Axis states during most of WW2.
Haven't got a topic for this sunny Monday and needed to create a flashy one? I guess you could have tried some copy & paste at an open source such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers_of_World_War_II
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_II
or
http://countrystudies.us/romania/22.htm
or about the Legionaris' Rebellion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom
or the Iron Guard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Guard
Have a good read and More Inspiration next time!

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