Vasile Zorzor (1890-1952)
Vasile Zorzor (1890-1952). A biography
Author(s): Corneliu BeldimanSubject(s): History, Military history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Communist repression;Military education; Military Professional Section of the National Peasant Party; Romanian Gendarmerie; Vasile Zorzor; war heroes generals;
Summary/Abstract: General Vasile Zorzor remains in our memory as an outstanding figure of a Romaniancareer officer in the first half of the 20 th century, being one of the interwar founders ofGendarmerie and a brilliant professor. He had been one of the war heroes and creators ofthe Greater Romania in 1918, on the battlefield. In May 1948, he was sued in the “Group of Witnesses” within the process of the National Peasant Party leaders at the BucharestMilitary Tribunal and sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment for “conspiracy for rebellion”. He passed away in August 1952, in Fagaras Penitentiary.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXVI/2018
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 250-253
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian
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