Word: bucharest
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Though both Rumanian and German troops promptly occupied key buildings in Bucharest, murder followed murder as the hours sped by. Twenty Carolists were killed in the Ploesti oil fields. There the riots quickly turned from politics to racial hysteria, and 2,000 Jews were said to have perished. More were killed in Galati, where Iron Guardists stormed and slaughtered through the Jewish quarter...
...authority of Antonescu broke down completely. The avenging assassins of Jihlava, instead of suffering "severe measures," walked boldly into the ancient Greek Orthodox Church of Ilie Gorgani in Bucharest, through the floodlit, green-draped entrance, past the urns of burning incense on the stone stairway. Before the altar, where 26 uniformed Iron Guard youths stood at attention, they knelt, joined the solemn prayers of the priests over the candlelit caskets of Codreanu and his "martyred" followers...
Through communications which were completely closed down, then reopened, reports flew out of Rumania like volleys of bloody popcorn. Queen Mother Helen was reported to have fled the country, King Mihai I was variously reported with his mother, at the outskirts of Bucharest, conferring with German Army leaders in his palace. Vice Premier Sima was reported on a trouble-shooting junket all over the country...
Then stories buzzed out of Bucharest that revolution had leaped over Rumania's new eastern frontier, was drenching the former Rumanian province of Bessarabia in blood. But Moscow snapped communication across the frontier, plunged Bessarabia into silence...
...Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu, Antonescu had stolen the thunder from his most popular opponent, had picked up the most popular issue in the country. If that failed to stop the Guard, Germany was ready to take over through a new and weaker puppet. Through the streets of Bucharest rode King Mihai I, a lone Rumanian significantly bringing up the rear of a Nazi motorized division...