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I don't wish for death to wanderers, but for their return to the right path.

I'm not here for revenge, but to reunite with a loving heart

those of you willing to join, for the improvement of the Nation.

Seeing the representatives of all Romanians,

from Nistru to Tisa, from Hotin to the sea,

from Boian to Vatra Dornei, from Sătmar to Săcele,

I believe, with the respect of the 800.000 dead

in Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia,

that, with their blood, they have cemented forever

the unification of the country.

Let's all work together

for our most precious possession: our country.

Romanians from everywhere, unite your thoughts and hearts!

Onwards, to our labor!

THE DEAD NATION - fragments of parallel lives -

Long live our King,

In peace and honor,

He's our country's banner,

For him, with joy we sing!

May he guide us forward

May his fame always extend

For victory in wars!

In the thirties, the photographer Costică Acsinte opened his own study

Foto Splendid, in the Southeast of Romania.

Our proud Legion is required by oath

To pay the price in blood.

The sacrifices made, The strength of the blades

Will lead to our Victory Day!

Dear heroes, look after us

Guiding the legion on its path. A brave death is all we want.

We pray to them.

At the end of 1937: in Bucharest, Dr. Emil Dorian starts a diary.

December 30th.

Absolute surprise: Goga is now the Prime Minister.

Nobody expected it.

The Jewish people expect a disaster.

We see the fruits of anti-Semitic nationalism

supported for years by all parties.

Goga will enforce his racist beliefs.

Many newspapers were closed because Goga wanted revenge.

The collapse is general.

People expect the same measures taken by Hitler in Germany.

January 6th. A sad observation:

People don't need freedom. It makes them sterile.

But collective discipline gives them peace.

January 14th. It finally happened:

I was fired from Social Security for being Jewish.

The boys from the newspaper exclaim: No more Jewish doctors in insurances!

Victory is theirs, nationalism has won.

I took it quite calmly.

I would have liked less sympathy calls.

January 25th.

The tuberculosis hospital has only one Jewish patient.

As reported by a worker of the Universal newspaper,

the Cristian patients asked that the Jewish one be expelled.

The most insulting measure against Jews

is the re-evaluation of citizenship.

Jews should not accept it. Citizenship is final.

How inept the gesture of reconsidering such act

which created long-lasting identities!

A million people are slapped across the face

forced to travel across the country for documents,

and to accept the period of 20 days.

If I knew that my family was safe, I would refuse to go.

What is the value of citizenship, if any minister can revoke it?

Our King has granted an interview. He was very honest.

He assures there will be no pogrom,

but that Jews could make it easier by leaving Romania voluntarily.

August 15th.

22 years ago today, the waters of an era split.

I crossed a country in war.

It was divided between poetry and reality.

I couldn't surpass an adolescence of lacks.

Those events today still echo within me.

What happened to the orphan nurse Thar swore she would kill

the man that started the next war?

Or the sick peasant that shouted:

I will stab the man that sent my father to die!

Or the wounded magistrate that groaned:

"Doctor, this country is sacred, but more sacred is my life!"

"Kill me if the country can't!"

And that Bavarian boy, that, after days of dying of hunger

when asked about information about the German troops, shouted:

"For bread I would sell my country and the Emperor!"

And others I met at the crossroads between tears, hunger, blood and death.

How to live with those memories for 25 years,

while criminals plan those horrors again?

My daughters are dancing in the next room

While on the radio a girl has announced

all the horrors of the deaths of all the world.

November 30th. Our events confirm the rumors

about the burning of synagogues across the country,

yesterday's killing of a Jewish dean from the University,

the bombing of a Jewish act in a theater,

and the shooting of Codreanu and other fascist legionaries.

Officially, they tried to escape

And were all killed because there was a the fog.

The Jews are still the ones most worried about the future...

Tragic experience has taught them that they must be the scapegoats.

They fight bravely for our objective,

to end with the misery of our country!

Free us, poor peasant of our work and misery

For dirty Jews and thieves suck our blood non stop.

For dirty Jews and thieves suck our blood non stop.

January 2nd.

The historian Iorga gives statistics of the doctors' ethnicities,

concluding that Jewish ones are the most numerous.

We still have very little doctors for our country's necessities.

"Throw them out! Hang them! Fine them."

What I find worst is his decoy

that the sanitary situation in Romania is caused by Jewish doctors.

People with common sense know this is abominable.

But others...

Things are progressing rapidly.

Now there's a single, Communist Party and it will run for Parliament.

They have an uniform; the roman salute is now mandatory.

The rest will continue.

September 1st. The war has started.

Hitler has attacked Poland and annexed Danzig.

Death approaches.

People were fine with the killings in China, until now.

September 21st.

Fascist legionaries shot the prime minister.

It was announced on the radio,

probably by a legionary that entered there by force.

September 24th. Arrests and executions.

There were many more executions than announced.

Dead legionaries were exposed on public squares.

In Bucharest people came in droves to see the exposed bodies

where the prime minister was killed.

A girl I know asked his father,

that instead of an ice cream, she let her see the corpses.

December 31st.

All hearts tremble,

more for the next year than for the previous.

The cheap emotion of tradition becomes dramatic.

This time, "What follows?" really echoes in our hearts.

What follows?

What follows?

I sincerely wish, as is is usual in my country:

"Happy new year!"

Good night!

June 28th. History is approaching.

Suddenly: the Soviets demand Bessarabia and Bukovina's North.

Germany and Italy don't support us.

The Crown's board accepted Russia's demands.

A minute of silence leaves our country without breath

in the supreme moment where Bessarabia is ripped from its body.

In our stolen land,

sons of Judas whom we raised kindly, rejoice in the streets.

See them laugh, while the Homeland bleeds!

June 30th. Jews are growing resentful.

People say that they welcomed the Russians in Bukovina and Bessarabia.

The radio in Rome spreads huge lies.

They say 3.000 Jews protested at the Soviet Embassy

convincing them to ask for Bessarabia.

The say Bukovina's Jews threw rocks at Romanian soldiers to drive them away.

The search for a scapegoat begins.

Today, Jewish medicine students were forbidden to show up to their exams.

July 16th.

There are many rumors of crimes in trains.

The soldier's pogrom against their comrades is unjustifiable.

We know what happened during the retreat in Bukovina and Bessarabia.

Communists previously persecuted and retired soldiers cause destruction.

And the remaining population may have acted violently.

This is common in exceptional times.

I can understand that soldiers act viciously because of frustration.

But to kill Jews like dogs in a calm Romanian city

is an unthinkable act of savagery.

But let's say that in some town full of poor Jews

the recent vexations went too far.

How to explain the cold-blooded murder against loyal Jewish soldiers?

How can a soldier throw his comrade in front of a train on the move?

These are not some savage boys that have fun

ripping the Jews' dirty beards. "Dirty Jewish beards".

This is the assassination of innocent people,

that in addition of being mistreated by the law, will soon die of hunger.

How can they still recruit Jewish soldiers?

Is it cynicism or a trap? To carry out a massacre?

August 1st. Today I lost my last means of survival.

The bank where I work as doctor fired me, quoting national reorganization.

I had only 15 days as warning.

August 9th.

Many Christians don't understand the humiliation of Jews as outcasts.

Lovinescu told me that the law was "liberal and fair".

Only a poet married to a Jew told me today:

"What has Hitler got against all of you?"

"He ask any ally country to make you suffer"

Jews already tell jokes about their miserable destiny.

One says: Christians have 3 new ways of talking to us:

"Mister dirty Jew", "dirty Jew", and "Fuck off, dirty Jew",

for the 3 categories of Jews defined by law.

August 21st.

Is no one ashamed of reading the recent speeches

of H.O. Roth and the minister of propaganda?

The Saxon dared to reprimand the country for a German minority

and the minister answered humbly:

"Germans here are on par with Romanians".

September 15th.

Romania is now a legionary State!

Many parliamentarians are legionaries: Horia Sima governs the Minister council

The legion is the only politically recognized movement

destined to "improve the morale of Romania and its creative powers".

General Antonescu is the head of the legionary regime.

September 30th.

The medial college has excluded all Jewish doctors.

Now they can only treat Jewish patients, while

christian doctors can treat anybody

because the legionary principle says

that you can take money from Jews, but never give them your money.

October 8th. The latest events:

Big legionary protest: German troops in the country.

Antonescu was wrong in putting the fascist green shirt.

General Antonescu now wears the Green Shirt!

In his soul, he has used it for a long time.

Long live General Antonescu!

Since we share the same opinions, I ask you, legionaries,

that you follow me, before the heavens, when reciting your oath:

For the Captain

and for our Nation,

before the King

we promise to give our lives

to create a people and a nation like the sacred sun in the sky!!

22nd of October.

The fatigue of years boils like an impotent scream.

Sometimes it weighs on me in a world of ruthless disaster.

Lots of darkness in this despicable year.

It's not surprising that the destruction goes on.

In the week of the mystical exaltation, celebrating

the captain of the legionaries like a saint,

Emil Cioran declared on radio that, between Romania and the Captain

He would have chosen the Captain in the blink of an eye.

There were also executions: Prof Iorga Madgearu, Lamandi, Gen. Argeşanu,

and around other 65 political prisoners.

Young legionary, so sacred, souls pure as snow, limbs of steel,

savage and free like the winds in April, thoughts

clear as mountain's springs.

Our hands rise forever to the sky. The pure sprout of the new century,

Raised with stone, fire, water power. Cemented with Dacian blood!

Guard and Captain Turn us into iron falcons

Country, Captain and the Archangel Michael!

December 25th.

Christmas. Withered, sterile. Not a single book.

Can't write a single line. Huge snowfalls, blocked roads.

I am so numb I can barely write this.

The death of the legionary, is for us, the most dear of all marriages.

For the cross and for our country we straighten mountains and fight tides.

We don't fear any storm or dungeon,

Or any enemy we can challenge.

Even if hurt by a club,

Even then, for our Captain we'll die with pleasure.

January 24th. There almost was a civil war.

The general Antonescu explained:

The legionaries tried to seize power.

What happened in Văcăreşti cannot be described.

So many Jews killed by armed legionaries.

Dozen of Jewish corpses were found along the way.

A merchant had his nose and arms broken, and was later killed.

The two kids of an old rabbi were killed in his arms.

another one had his tongue and eyes cut.

Jews were hanged in the abattoir’s fishing hooks.

some were thrown to the sewers or on the streets.

Two corpses were identified by a patient of mine.

More corpses were kept out of the morgue, in the snow.

They keep identifying more. They pile up in the riverbank of the morgue.

When they are found, people speak of more crimes.

As for the beatings and tortures the list is endless:

Jews are forced to drink gasoline, their backs are slashed in a cross

Beatings and killings by women...

February 2nd.

News on the radio about the 92 Jews killed in Jilava:

Human cruelty was never so fierce.

Like in other cases, some of the monstrous assassins were women.

Ilie Rădulescu candidly negates our country's bad reputation

caused by the pogrom.

More horrible details are revealed.

Among them, the Jews speak only about the tragedy.

They are still stunned, as if they were drugged.

I didn't speak much with the Christians.

Sonya was ashamed and charged at her people

for she says that they don't deserve a nation.

Jewish urban properties are now being confiscated.

Even poor people felt the emotion

caused by this mass-confiscation of Jewish houses.

Some worked hard all their lives to buy one a house.

Others have just a hut and they will lose it.

The houses will be given to christian lawyers, functionaries, doctors...

This is justified through Christianity and nationalism.

It's sad and absurd.

The Romanian soldiers celebrated Easter as is our christian custom.

German soldiers and officials were welcomed with love.

- Christ has resurrected! - Yes, he has!

The visitants were impressed with our religious rituals

and the great architecture of the monument.

Then they visited the church in which they saw

the old religious relics of our past.

Germans and Romanians together celebrated Hitler's birthday

the great leader of all the destinies of all Germans.

June 22, 1941. The Leader has ordered:

"Soldiers, cross the Prut river!"

"Crush the enemy to the East and the North!"

"Free our brothers of the red Bolshevik yoke."

"Make the body of the country whole again,

with the old Bessarabia and Bukovina!"

People kneel everywhere

in our free country and thank God.

The country has walked again in trail of its great destiny.

With enthusiasm, the first day of war against Bolshevik brutality,

The crowd claps feverishly for the Reich and its Führer Adolf Hitler.

August 11th. The hate against Jews is wild.

After the executions in Laşi, greatly exceeding the official version

Jews were evacuated from the Moldovan cities in closed wagons

dying horribly of thirst and suffocation.

The tragic details keep arriving.

The scenes of the train station with miserable souls in sealed carts

that no one can get to, exceeds any sadist fantasy.

Hundreds of people in cattle wagons,

drinking others' piss, screaming until they die, exhausted.

There were scenes of pure madness: a man paid 20.000 Lei for a glass of water.

Others offered their jewels to take a sip.

The survivors will end up in camps.

Like old governors that,

before battle, knelled to God in praise,

General Antonescu, his team and German officials

knelled at and old church

and prayed for victory against the barbarians.

The audacious Romanian army has overwhelmed the absurd frontiers

imposed by the Bolshevik greed.

Our advancing in Bukovina is unstoppable.

General Antonescu's army is so brave!

August 13th.

Recent events have unnerved me.

I am terrified because I can't even earn my daily bread.

I keep thinking about death.

An enormous fatigue weighs on me

the pain in my muscles the manual labor I am reduced to.

Everything seems dry, lacking any meaning.

Maybe this is the best moment to end it all.

Romanian troops marched again, where in 1918,

we established our government over Bessarabia.

August 16th.

For the second time, I stopped writing here.

I feel as if I had lived 20 years of my life since then.

A man returned from forced labor with a serious injury.

he was rejected by the Christian doctors for being a dirty Jew.

he had is bandage opened and was thrown out bleeding.

Then a large family of Jews drowned. In the middle, a big chain of disasters.

Without radios or a phone, I sense how we're humiliated, impoverished,

and now forced to wear a yellow star.

Then all the Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina were sent to Transnistria.

Those cities became empty within a few days.

Old people, women and children were left in the unknown.

When are we going to remain in Bucharest?

October 20th. Odessa was conquered by Romania.

We have exchanged Cluj for Odessa, someone said.

The newspapers said that the Romanian soldiers were warmly welcomed

then talks about fights on the streets.

With spontaneous enthusiasm,

people everywhere are cheering for our glorious army,

for our King, our Leader and our great allies.

Everyone supports our country's Leader,

the glorious Marshall Antonescu.

November 14th. We still fear being deported to Ukraine.

All Jews are obsessed with it at the moment.

Nothing is absurd anymore.

News of Jews being deported to Transnistria are terrifying.

They walk in the rain, women and girls are raped, hunger, suicides...

Benador looks terribly unsettled.

Destroyed by the fear that the Jews of Bucharest were evacuated

he was astonished by two Jews entertained by a funny story.

How can the Jews still laugh?

In honor of the German Führer and the Italian Duce,

Two plazas have been named Hitler plaza and Mussolini plaza.

Mihai Ralea is what passes as a democrat here nowadays: docile,

adapting to any form of government to have a political career.

We spoke to him about the Romanian people, but he said:

"Nothing can be done now. We've killed 200.000 women and children."

He gave us details about the killings in Bessarabia and Bukovina.

Burnt women, 100 children buried to their necks, then executed.

Jews forced to step on a dining table,

are then hanged up from the ceiling.

Our governing Marshall visited Transnistria,

where the Romanian administration has a program

to rebuild this region, greatly damaged by the Bolshevik government.

December 31st..

Without exaggerating, this year felt like ten.

Mass killings by legionaries and now when,

as Hitler had solemnly promised, that the war should have be over

this year was full of blood, terror, and desperation.

Hard times for one that looks around objectively

trying to re-conciliate everything with one's own thoughts.

Marshall Antonescu recalls our tradition of compassion:

"The orphans and the poor, hope for our Christian compassion."

"We can only grow strengthening our race."

"And we can't build our race in poverty."

Of course, the Jews, which the State uses for all the hard work

was called to shovel the snow.

They left with shovels at -31 degrees.

The cold hit them immediately. I treated many frozen ears.

We're so oppressed that you have to be happy to live here in any way you can

instead of across the Dniester, where thousands die of hunger every day.

News from there are horrible: I constantly think about them,

eating or writing, with impotence and mute anger.

What about the rest of us?

We know deporting is being considered again.

February 6th.

News talk about a big business trying a new kind of lethal gas.

Subjects were 400 young men at a concentration camp. They all died.

In the USA, Thomas Mann blamed the German people:

They could have prevented their leaders from doing this.

This cold blooded murder - in the Netherlands - is seen as worse

than killing innocent children with weapons

or Jews of any age that die of thirst in sealed wagons

or burnt, covered in gasoline.

Then you're in silence again, passing through tomorrow's mud

across starvation deaths in Greece, and so on

in this season without end, with cold, gray days dirtied in blood.

June 7th.

I heard someone got an order to shoot kids in a truck in Bessarabia.

He refused: "No, they're kids. I'd be happy if they were dirty Jews".

The children, that were in fact Jewish, were

saved thanks to this "charitable" man.

June 29th. Jews in Chernowitz are being deported.

On Sundays they can't leave their homes.

That's when the authorities attack, street after street.

Sounds of sirens used to cover up the desperate screams of poor souls.

They're put into cattle wagons and throw some bread and water.

Their goods are stacked by the whole city.

Everyone buys them, even if they don't tolerate such atrocities.

Since they're so cheap!

Transnistria's governor and other functionaries

assisted a solemn event in Odessa's heroes cemetery.

The chief of the orthodox mission in Transnistria

offered a commemorative service.

Here the heroic deeds of the Romanian army were remembered.

Let's swear the oath told by our Marshall:

"Before these tombs, I swear that I trust in our victory"

"And promise to fight even harder for the honor and freedom of Romanians!"

August 2nd.

Corn is also rationed. 1.5 kilograms a week.

Jews do not get any though.

They're denied basic foods.

Of sugar, they get half, or a third of a ration.

But corn flour has to be a national dish subject of ethic prohibition.

August 10th.

Galaction entered the German-Romanian association.

Other writes rejected invitations repeatedly.

Many were disappointed, thinking the good priest was neutral.

During the shoveling of snow, he passed by some Jewish youths.

He took a shovel and worked for them a while.

like a symbolic protest.

Then, the good priest acted on the good side, again.

August 19th.

The Center of Romanianization keeps seizing Jewish homes.

New tenants are brought.

The christian tenants will go from uncomfortable houses to good ones

while the Jews will movie to houses in bad conditions.

A captain went to see the house of a Jew he would rent.

The owner asked him to go later

than the hour established by the Center of Romanianization

The captain grabbed him:

"I can shoot you like a dog! I have killed 50 like you in Odessa!"

September 8th.

The Jews locked in schools in Bucharest were sent out.

Witnesses says it was horrible.

The street was filled with screams.

The passersby threw them cigars and money.

The kids wouldn't get in, the ones left behind had to be moved away.

The schools were disinfected and everything was forgiven.

September 5th.

A joke, while I wait in line:

"So our children die at the front

so that the Jews can get a country in Transnistria!"

November 22nd. Things progress rapidly.

Soviets pushed 100km on Stalingrad and took 18.000 prisoners.

The Germans had 13.000 dead and wounded.

The German troops in Stalingrad are surrounded.

November 28th.

The amount of Jews killed in Poland went from 700.000 to a million.

The German massacres must have reached terrifying numbers

if we count all the horrors in Soviet occupied territories.

And the killings go on.

Our authorities seem to tease now about antisemitic measures.

For now, it doesn't matter either because of the events

or because of the return of a genuine human conscience.

January 10th.

Snow. Jews go to work.

Near Cotroceni, a few ones were beaten

by the soldiers for "being too slow".

The capital is becoming a Jewish work-site.

The snow is an relentless communal institution.

From Stephen the Great.

The church has been the basis of our nation.

In the church, the Marshall has compromised to

have faith and fight fearlessly for Romania.

We've never attacked anybody.

Romanians never wanted the land of other nations.

We can't be accused of conquering the East.

It's a holy war for the national unity, and to defend Europe.

When we were forced to defend our land,

we took over another invasion from the other

side of the Dniester, it wasn't for destruction.

We have brought the cross of re-Christianization

and supported the population.

A train of Jews from Thessaloniki stopped here on its way to Poland.

Their destination there is known. They were not allowed any contact.

Any attempt to give them water or food was stopped.

In the country once named Orthodox Russia,

Christian crosses were removed to make space for Jewish tombs

because Jews reign supremely there.

This is the house of a Jew political superintendent, full of firearms.

Because he was the owner of the lives of he Soviet proletariat.

May 26th.

Gas, the most terrible weapon hasn't been used yet.

None of the many factions of the war dared.

No matter how tragic and desperate the fight was.

This weapon seemed to be reserved for the Jewish sector.

We still hear of Jews being gassed under German occupation.

Despite the official reports, people refuse to believe this is possible.

Genuine scene on a tram:

A Jew offers his seat to an old Christian.

"I will not sit here after a dirty Jew!" he said furiously.

A Christian man asks:

- You don't want the seat? - No, I don't want it!

The other takes the Jew's seat. Two minutes later, he stands up

and tells the old man: "you can sit now, I've Romanianized it."

January 10th. Yesterday I called a cab.

The driver said: "Do you know what car this is?"

"The prime minister was killed on it!"

All lives depend of the result of the war, writers included.

Remy from Gourmont was boasting when he talked about the previous war,

"It didn't bother me."

And Montherlant claims that art can't stop because of war

because the artist's only objective is personal, this is nonsense.

Let's see what they say today, when France is in ruins

not in 1938, when the French still believed in their strength.

Anti-air sirens!

To the cannons!

Anti-air artillery artillery stops the enemy bombardiers.

But the enemy doesn't change. The anti-air weapons increase his fire!

Yesterday we saw the horrors of the U.S. bombing.

Hundreds of bombers flew over Bucharest,

bombs rained upon us.

It was a terrible time.

Between bombs, I ran to my first-aid post.

My family was scared to death in the shelter.

A bomb hit a house nearby, crushing the family of the clerk.

The bombs also fell in the boulevard Mărăşeşti.

So many victims, incalculable damage.

Many died in shelters that were bombed.

No more water, electricity, the trams barely working.

My nephew found all his neighbors dead, 11 people.

Dozens of people died suffocated in a shelter nearby.

Hundred more died in Obor's shelter.

Some estimate around 2.000 victims.

We expect, afraid, more disasters.

April 14th.

Little Clara has 9 years; she's one of hundreds of orphans

sent from Transnistria to be sent to Palestine.

Her little body has the stigma of malnutrition.

swollen abdomen, thin legs.

When she was six her parents took her with them to Chernivtsi.

Then deportations to Transnistria started. They spent 3 years there.

Our friends care for her with love, until she is sent to Palestine.

She speaks of death with a great lack of care.

"Every morning I saw dead boys and girls. I stepped on their bodies."

"I don't know how I survived."

"I ate beetroots and potato skins."

Now beetroot soup or potato stew sicken me.

What scares me is how she hates Christians, whom she hates vividly.

A friend was visiting my daughter.

She saw him enter and ran to us, screaming:

- "There's a Christian here! Make him go away!"

- "She's not Christian, dear" - "But he speaks Romanian!"

She refuses to speak it.

She learned Yiddish specifically to avoid using Romanian.

June 24th.

After similar letters,

The patriarch Nicodim wrote to London's archbishop

begging for the bombing to stop.

His arguments are the same:

Romanians are, of course, kind, generous and profoundly loving.

The archbishop probably saw how tolerant the Romanians were:

They never oppressed those from other religions or origins.

The letter doesn't need any more comments

particularly where high prelate affirms the decency of the basic war

where only soldiers die,

not innocent women, children and old people.

The archbishop of Canterbury is totally aware of these realities.

As is the patriarch, in all his cruelties.

He has been witness of all the injustice and abuse.

So he knows what kind of answer to expect.

August 23rd.

We hear King Michael's proclamation in the radio

announcing our switching of sides to the Allies,

taking Transylvania back, the re-establishment of freedom

and a new Government, including communists and socialists.

The communist leader reads the amnesty

of all political prisoners, except legionaries.

The story of Romania has turned a colossal page.

We all go out to the streets, cheering.

The neighbors offered us champagne, then we went to see some friends.

The Transnistrian shouted: "Hurray for peace!"

April 10th.

If someone interviewed the Romanian people -

most of the leaders with prejudice and the middle class -

our current situation would seem painful.

Many say:

"Why do Jews go to the Popular Jury, for political revenge?"

"The wheel could turn some day."

The answer is that they're criminally wrong.

Our pact with the Allies includes punishment for war criminals.

The Popular Jury was not even founded by Jews..

Many Jews are witnesses

because they were subject of Romanian cruelty in Transnistria.

Others aren't convinced, false smiles cover the damaged dignity.

An actress friend of mine told me: "I hate workers like manure worms!

Another bitter line in the interview with the Romanian people.

May 9th.

Germany has surrendered. The war in Europe is over.

An historic reality, military and politic awaited for over 5 years.

Germany has surrendered. That is all.

After all its crimes, pillaging, disasters and savagery

they have failed in their own country surrounded by Allied forces.

The Germans have surrendered. It had to happen.

We waited for it 3, 2, a year ago. Instead, nobody tried to revolt.

No one could stop the decline of a country maddened by megalomania

poisoned by hate, open to stupidity and cruelty.

Nothing to write, nothing to comment.

June. The Popular Jury continues its work.

But there is little interest for the first trial.

It's like a vacation reunion.

The newspapers report superficial acts, boring announcements.

Almost no one read them.

Still, they are still judging more beasts as bad as the first lot.

Many people are still unidentified or missing.

Many criminals will remain in state jobs, in the army, everywhere.

What happened to general Georgescu, who in '42 told his hairdresser:

"I killed so many Jews, for my heart's happiness and beyond!"

The population of Bucharest applauded the return of our delegates in Moscow

after the negotiations with excellent results for us.

A crowd gathered on the airport to receive them

and to express gratitude to our great neighbor the Soviet Union.

In the landing, the enthusiastic crowd broke the cordon.

The people greeted the Generalissimo Stalin and our government

and the eternal Romanian-Soviet friendship.

Prime Minister Dr. Petru declared:

"I hope the wind carries our voice throughout the country,

so that you may know that we come from the home of our great neighbor,

the Soviet Union!"

The people chant: "¡Sta-Lin! Sta-Lin!"

"We students support the working class!"

"U-S-S-R!"

February 28th

Titel Petrescu, the ridiculous politician, said:

"We have never had religious intolerance."

"There was antisemitism, but because the Jews tried to control commerce

entering in conflict with the Romanians."

Is it possible for a Marxist to still claim something so absurd?

His theory will certainly be spread and exploited.

Soon, we will surely hear that the Jews have taken over democracy

which would justify the new antisemitism.

Sadly, there is no way to react, no place in which to write.

Staying together means remaining in silence and swallowing it together.

June 2nd.

The two Antonescus, Piki Vasiliu and Alexianu have been executed.

The other three that were also sentenced to death

have now been changed for forced labor for life.

I think this ends with the biggest sentences for war criminals.

"It's too late, the Romanians are very kind, et cetera."

Some more will be convicted, in the middle of common indifference.

Then elections will come.

And we will continue rebuilding the country and re-educating its people...