RELATĂRILE MAIORULUI CONSTANTIN ROESCU DIN REGIMENTUL 74 INFANTERIE CONSTANŢA DESPRE MODUL ÎN CARE AU FOST TRATAŢI OFIŢERII ROMÂNI PRIZONIERI ÎN LAGĂRELE DIN BULGARIA ÎN LUNA NOIEMBRIE 1918
REPORTS OF MAJOR CONSTANTIN ROESCU FROM REGIMENT 74 CONSTANTA INFANTRY ABOUT THE WAY THE ROMANIAN OFFICERS PRISONERS IN THE CAMPS IN BULGARIA WERE TREATED IN NOVEMBER 1918

Summary/Abstract: The issue of prisoners of war from the first world conflagration was little addressed in Romanian historiography. However, the military documents contain memoirs of the officers who returned from captivity, in which data are recorded regarding the circumstances in which prisoners fell and to which enemy troops, in which camp they were interned, the treatments they were subjected to by enemy. For most of the Romanian soldiers who ended up in the prison camps in Bulgaria, the real war experience was limited to the Bulgarian attack on the Turtucaia bridgehead, as was the case with Major Constantin Roescu. The shock of the defeat at Turtucaia was amplified by the physical sufferings and humiliations endured during his captivity, which he recounts in the memorandum prepared upon his return to the country.

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