Antonescu

/ ˌæntɒˈnɛskjuː /

noun

1. AntonescuIon18821946MRomanianMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: prime minister Ion. 1882–1946, Romanian general and statesman; appointed prime minister (1940) by King Carol II. He was executed for war crimes

Example Sentences

As some of the characters note, the 1989 revolution that deposed Ceausescu encouraged a rose-tinted reappraisal of the anti-communist Antonescu’s legacy and a willingness to look past his most unspeakable war crimes.

From Los Angeles Times

The title of “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” Radu Jude’s explosively eloquent and morally galvanizing sixth feature, is a quotation from the words of Ion Antonescu, the 1940s Romanian marshal who steered his country into an alliance with Nazi Germany.

From Los Angeles Times

During World War Two, when Romania was under the military dictatorship of Marshall Ion Antonescu, up to 380,000 Jews were killed in Romanian state-held territories.

From BBC

Romania deported 150,000 Jews and 25,000 Roma people to Nazi concentration camps in a part of the Soviet Union that was controlled by the Axis powers from 1941 to 1944, when the country was run by pro-Nazi dictator Ion Antonescu.

From The Guardian

Inside one church, I found a fresco gloriously depicting Ion Antonescu, an ally of Hitler; in the synagogue, an exhibition documents his crimes.

From New York Times