ASPECTE DIN VIAŢA ȘI ACTIVITATEA LUI GHEORGHE BRĂTIANU. SCRISOAREA SA CĂTRE ADOLF HITLER DIN 10 IULIE 1940
ASPECTS OF GHEORGHE BRĂTIANU’S LIFE AND ACTIVITY. HIS LETTER TO ADOLF HITLER FROM THE 10TH OF JULY 1940

Summary/Abstract: George Brătianu is one of the most important Romanian historians. He lived and worked during the interwar period and during the Second World War. He was involved in proving the Romanian right over the territory of Greater Romania. In 1940, when the borders of Romania were jeopardized, he wrote a memoire, proving the legitimacy of the Romanian borders and struggle. He sent this statement to different personalities of the time. Together with a letter, he also sent it to Adolf Hitler. This article publishes the letter. In this, Brătianu showed that he did not belong to the ones who addressed to the German authorities only after the German victories, but from the beginning. He made lobby in Romania for the improvement of the Romanian – German relations. Then he showed that the disposal of Bessarabia in favor of the Soviet Union was a great sacrifice, of which Germany took profit too. That is why he asked the Führer to read the memoire and realize that the Reich needs a powerful Romania on the lower Danube. After the Soviet occupation of Romania, George Brătianu, together with many other Romanian intellectuals, politicians and patriots died in the prison from Sighet, in the year 1953.

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