Brig wrote:hmmm...a complete 180 degree reversal. obviously they realized their first statement was not too bright, and might lose them credit on the stage of world politics
Brig, I guess that besides "their first statement was not too bright", they acknowledged that it was erroneous. So, in my opinion, their reversal has nothing to do with PC:
THE HOLOCAUST IN ROMANIA
In Romania, Jews lost their citizenship in 1937, and with it certain legal protections. The Germans never thought the fascist Iron Guard was efficient enough to run the country, so the less extreme military-royal dictatorship remained in charge. Events in Romania proceeded along lines consistent with Hilberg's model: Jews were first identified and then had their property expropriated.
When the war with Russia began in 1941, Romania initiated an extermination program of its own in liberated Bessarabia. Jews from Bessarabia and from Romania proper were assembled there and murdered: the Romanians proceeded with such single-mindedness that some German authorities criticized their activity, because the use of rail cars was interfering with the military effort.
The period of Romanian-sponsored massacres was intense but short: by 1942 Romania's leaders guessed that Germany would lose the war, and abruptly stopped the killings. As a result, about 550,000 Romanian Jews survived the war. 120,000 Romanian Jews were killed in Bessarabia; another 150,000 from Transylvania died after falling under Hungarian control, then being deported from Hungary in 1944.
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http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect19.htm
I'm afraid this thread will be moved.
