PRESA DIN BRĂILA ÎN TIMPUL OCUPAŢIEI GERMANE (1917-1918)
The Newspapers from Brăila during the German Occupation (1917-1918)

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents, on the basis of local newspapers and the memoirs sources, in several aspects related to the administration of the city and the quotidian life on Brăila. In 1914-1916, journalists from Brăila propagated the idea of Romania’s participation in the great conflagration along with France and England, with the aim of achieving the national ideal: the establishment of the national state. After the occupation of the southern Romania by the German, Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and Ottoman troops, the central administration of the state along with the royal family and a large number of editorial offices were relocated to the city of Iaşi. After the moment when the defeated Romanian army and the authorities in Bucharest retreated to Moldova, in January 1917, Brăila was occupied by the troops of the Central Powers. The article analyses the significances of the concept of quotidian life on Brăila, the most important port of the Old Kingdom, in German occupation 1917-1918. The collaborationist journalists’ situation is one of the topics that we issue in this historical outline.

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