Jurnalul de război și de prizonierat al profesorului Alex Dăscălescu
The Diary of War and Imprisonment of Professor Alex Dăscălescu

Summary/Abstract: The study presents the diary of war and imprisonment kept by Alexandru Dăscălescu from the 56 Infantry Regiment from Fălticeni, established on April 1st, 1914. Professor in the civilian life, he was mobilized as a reserve officer (second lieutenant) and was deployed to the Company I of Battalion I. This subunit was part of the covering forces, who had the mission to occupy the Carpathian passes in the very night of the mobilization.The diary is structured into two major parts, the first covering the life on the frontline, the second the life in the German prisoner camps. During the first phase (August 6/19 – November 6/19, 1916), the unit of the second lieutenant Dăscălescu accomplished its missions both in the Eastern Carpathians (in the sector Tulgheș-Toplița) and the second battle on Jiu River.On November 6/19, second lieutenant Dăscălescu was taken prisoner and, for the next 600 days, he got to know the life in the prisoner camps with all its humiliations. After a short period in Sibiu, he was moved to the Straslund camp, located on the Dänholm Island in the Baltic Sea, and then to Ostenholtz, some 50 km north of Hanover, where the Germans kept the prisoners they considered to be the most hostile.It was here where he witnessed the recruitment of Colonel Alexandru D. Sturdza, who turned to the enemy during the night of January 21 / February 5, 1917. Alexandru Dăscălescu refused the German offer to return to his country in the service of the enemy and subsequently was moved the Bresen camp, located near a wood, somewhere in South of the city of Wismar. On June 10/23, 1918, Alexandru Dăscălescu returned to his country.

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