Just released from concentration camps, The Legionary leaders began to organize the anti-communist resistance. From left to right, Horia Sima, Vasile Iasinchi and Corneliu Georgescu.
De abia eliberați din lagărele de concentrare, liderii legionari au început să organizeze rezistența anticomunistă. De la stânga la dreapta, Horia Sima, Vasile Iasinchi și Corneliu Georgescu.
The existence of the individual is interspersed by a multitude of activities, how everyone can find out. But only one activity ensures them the fullness of the spiritual life, that which rises on the line of ascendance individual-nation-God. From that moment the individual leads a full life, for he has discovered the axis of life.
Existenta individului e brăzdată de o mulțime de activități, cum poate constata fiecare. Dar o singură activitate îi asigură
plenitudinea vieții spirituale, aceea care se înalță pe linia ascendentă individ-neam-Dumnezeu. Din acel moment individul duce o viață plenară, căci a descoperit axa vieții lui.
Vasile Iașinschi, January 19, 1941 speaking at the gathering of Legionary friends:
Vasile Iașinschi, 19 ianuarie 1941 vorbind la întâlnirea prietenilor legionarilor:
Horia Sima visiting the Romanians who were undergoing training courses conducted by the Abwehr for agents who had to infiltrate Romania. Interestingly, they are wearing different uniforms (from the Waffen SS, Heer, including the Luftwaffe).
Horia Sima viziteaza Romania, care urmeaza cursuri de instruire desf produse de Abwehr pentru Agen produse care trebuie s infiltreze romn Romnia. Ca un fapt curios, observați că aceștia poart produse uniforme diferite (ale Waffen SS, ale Armatei, inclusiv Luftwaffe).
With hearts, dreams, and autumns,
We have diligently woven our destinies,
And we have bled under unjust hands, Lord,
We bring them to You, keep them.
And send us in secret, to carry us,
Archangels of lightning and snow,
When we go through persecution and death,
Let us light a star over the land.
Colonel Alexandru, as well of the Major State of the National Romanian Army, supervising Regiment 1’s soldiers training.
Colonelul Alexandrescu, de asemenea, din Statul Major al Armatei Naționale Române, supervizează instruirea soldaților din Regimentul nr. 1.
Romania, citadel of faith and civilization, fought in the East for Cross and Justice.
Only you, the legionaries, are capable of detaching yourselves from bodily goods. Only you, the legionaries, are ready to give your lives for an ideal, for the leader who embodies this ideal. Nowhere else in the world have I encountered such a perfect symbiosis between creed and reality. And I trust the Legion, because no other movement affirms poverty as its ideal of life and the love, as you say, for legionary death. I am amply informed about the Legionary Movement and I attribute this posture to the adoption of original Christianity, uncorrupted by the passage of centuries. I tell you this to explain why I chose you, a foreigner, and not some young Nazi militant. Because we, like the fascists, have lost intimate contact with Christianity. You have not.
Horia Sima saluting the soldiers of the National Romanian Army who were appointed to be dropped over Soviet-occupied Romania.
Horia Sima salutând militarii Armatei Naţionale Române care au fost desemnaţi pentru a fi lansati peste România ocupată de sovietici.
Vasile Iașinschi, January 19, 1941 speaking at the gathering of Legionary friends:
Vasile Iașinschi, 19 ianuarie 1941 vorbind la întâlnirea prietenilor legionarilor:
The existence of the individual is interspersed by a multitude of activities, how everyone can find out. But only one activity ensures them the fullness of the spiritual life, that which rises on the line of ascendance individual-nation-God. From that moment the individual leads a full life, for he has discovered the axis of life.
Existenta individului e brăzdată de o mulțime de activități, cum poate constata fiecare. Dar o singură activitate îi asigură
plenitudinea vieții spirituale, aceea care se înalță pe linia ascendentă individ-neam-Dumnezeu. Din acel moment individul duce o viață plenară, căci a descoperit axa vieții lui.
In the present map, over 300 establishments can be counted, the result of the work of the Legionary camps: cathedrals, churches, restorations of monasteries, hermitages, homes, shelters for the poor, rest homes made for the needy, roadside crosses, mountain roads, dams and bridges, ensemble arrangements (as in the case of the camp at Carmen Sylva {Eforie Nord today} on the shores of the Black Sea), hospitals for the poor, canteens for orphans, and many other similar initiatives. In total, the number of Legionary labor camps is estimated throughout Romania to exceed 3,500…
Se pot număra în harta de față peste 300 de așezăminte, rod al muncii taberelor legionare: catedrale, biserici, restaurări de mănăstiri, schituri, cămine, case de adăpost pentru cei săraci, case de odihnă făcute pentru cei nevoiași, troițe, drumuri de munte, diguri și poduri, amenajări de ansamblu (cum a fost cazul taberei de la Carmen Sylva {Eforie Nord astăzi} pe malul Mării Negre), spitale pentru săraci, cantine pentru orfani și multe altele asemenea. În total numărul taberelor de muncă legionare este estimat pe tot cuprinsul României la peste 3500…
Romania, citadel of faith and civilization, fought in the East for Cross and Justice.
The 153rd Grenadier Division of the 3rd Romanian Army training on the Eastern Front, with a Raketenpanzerbüchse 54 anti-tank weapon. In the area of Southern Basarabia, 1944.
Divizia 153 Grenadier a Armatei 3 Române antrenament pe Frontul de Est, cu o armă antitanc Raketenpanzerbüchse 54. În zona Basarabiei de Sud, 1944.
Only you, the legionaries, are capable of detaching yourselves from bodily goods. Only you, the legionaries, are ready to give your lives for an ideal, for the leader who embodies this ideal. Nowhere else in the world have I encountered such a perfect symbiosis between creed and reality. And I trust the Legion, because no other movement affirms poverty as its ideal of life and the love, as you say, for legionary death. I am amply informed about the Legionary Movement and I attribute this posture to the adoption of original Christianity, uncorrupted by the passage of centuries. I tell you this to explain why I chose you, a foreigner, and not some young Nazi militant. Because we, like the fascists, have lost intimate contact with Christianity. You have not.
Professor Sangiorgiu of the Romanian National Government, visiting a German hospital where wounded soldiers of the Romanian Army were recovering, to encourage them to join the National Army.
Profesorul Sângiorgiu din Guvernul Național Român, vizitând un spital german, unde se recuperau răniți ai Armatei române, pentru a-i încuraja să se unească Armatei Naționale.
Colonel Ciobanu, Chief of Staff of the Romanian National Army, dressed in the uniform of his country's army, exchanging impressions with one of the Romanian battalion commanders wearing the uniform of the Waffen ϟϟ.
Colonelul Ciobanu şef al Statului Major al Armatei Naționale Române, îmbrăcat în uniforma armatei țării sale, schimbând impresii cu unul dintre comandanții de batalion români, cu uniforma Waffen ϟϟ.
The Parade of Legionaries together with nationalists from Germany, Italy and Spain in Bucharest.
Defilarea legionarilor împreună cu naționaliști din Germania, Italia și Spania la București.
We were both Orthodox and Catholics. Beetwen us there was no political or confessional differences, We sought to fit in our actions in military honour and in Christian moral, both towards friends, and towards enemies. You will not find once in the fight an act of which we should be ashamed or dirty moral fight. This was the second character of our struggle: THE CHRISTIAN ONE.
Eram şi ortodocşi, şi catolici. Intre noi nu existau diferențe politice sau confesionale. Am căutat să ne încadrăm acțiunile noastre în onoarea militară şi morala creştină atât față de prieteni, cât şi fată de duşmani. Nu se va găsi nicăieri în lupta noastră o faptă de care să ne fie ruşine sau care să ne murdărească moral lupta. Acesta a fost cel de al doilea caracter al luptei noastre: CEL CREȘTIN.
The beauty of the legionary life lies precisely in the multitude of dangers.
Frumuseţea vieţii legionare stă tocmai în mulţimea primejdiilor.
Romanian soldier loading a mortar, at an emplacement on the Eastern front, Kuban River, May 1943.
Un soldat român ce încarcă un mortar, la un amplasament de pe frontul de est, râul Kuban, Mai 1943.
Just released from concentration camps, The Legionary leaders began to organize the anti-communist resistance. From left to right, Horia Sima, Vasile Iasinchi and Corneliu Georgescu.
De abia eliberați din lagărele de concentrare, liderii legionari au început să organizeze rezistența anticomunistă. De la stânga la dreapta, Horia Sima, Vasile Iasinchi și Corneliu Georgescu.
