Propaganda antislavă în timpul regimului Antonescu
Anti-Slavic propaganda during the Antonescu regime

Summary/Abstract: The content and the form of the Romanian propaganda during Ion Antonescu’s regime, especially during the period June 1941-August 1944 when Romania participated in the World War II alongside Germany, have been under the influence of the political context, foreign and domestic. Three distinct stages can be identified for the Romanian propaganda, depending on the general evolution of the war: January 27, 1941 - June 21, 1941 – Romania did not engage itself in the war, June 22, 1941 - February 2, 1943 – Romania participates in the offensive phase of the war, phase which has been stopped by the defeat suffered by the Axis Powers in Stalingrad Battle, February 3, 1943 - August 22, 1944 – Romania takes into consideration the possibility that Germany might lose the war and starts negotiations concerning a possible armistice. During the first stage Romania had an offensive propaganda against the Soviet Union, but after Stalingrad it will underline the national character of her struggle against Bolshevism, trying to prove that it had never attack the Soviet Russia if the last would have not taken Basarabia and Bucovina, Romanian territories. The major themes of the Romanian propaganda for this period have been the propaganda against Bolshevism, as Romania’s holy mission for defending the European civilization and Christianity; the propaganda for the lost Romanian territories; Romania’s loyalty towards Germany; counterpropaganda. Although Romania did not know an official anti-Slavic racist ideology, during the war, following the German example, Romania elaborated an anti-Slavic propaganda, especially before February 1943, but without reaching the level known by this phenomenon in Germany.

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