The Archive · 1941

Rumania Proclaims

"Holy War"

Berlin, June 22.

"Today, the hour of the holy war fas struck," says General Jon Antonescu, Rumania's dictator-premer, in an order-of-the-day ssued to the Rumanian troops who are fighting side by side with the Germans against Russia, according to the German official news agency.

"I command you to cross the Pruth River and smash the enemy to the east and north, and free your brothers from the Red Yoke. You will be fighting shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart with the strongest and most glorious army in the world. They are fighting Moldavian soil for our front: ers and for justice in the world. Prove yourselves worthy of the honour allotted you by that unique leader, Adolf Hifler!"—Reuter.

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