23 August 1944 reflectat în declaraţiile unor militari participanţi la evenimente
Soldiers’ Testimonies about their participation in the coup of 23rd of August, 1944

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the 1950s, in Communist Romania, the signal was given for a historical reevaluation of the events of August 23rd, 1944, by pointing out the importance of the internal factor. In this context, in February 1960 written declarations were taken from army officers who had participated in the preparation and realisation of the act: Emilian Ionescu, Gheorghe Teodorescu, Dumitru Bâlă, Dumitru Rusu, and Dinu Cojocaru. Besides the subjectivism of the memorialists and some chronological discrepancies among their statements, we can also notice the use of the concept of coup d’etat for that moment, as well as the recognition of the role played by the King and by some superior officers in the evolution of events, alongside with the over-evaluation of the participation of the Romanian Communists.

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