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To achieve its goals, the Antonescu government tasked the implementation of Romanianization to the SSRCI and its department, the CNR, who supervised the expropriation, administration, and distribution of properties; the MEN, including its Commissars Office, who was the driving force behind the Romanianization of businesses; and the OCR, belonging to the MMSOS, who promoted the Romanianization of employment. While many of these agencies’ employees were based in central and local offices (in every district) and served as Romanianization desk bureaucrats, others (field agents) were located “on the ground.” The latter were commissars of various types: inspectors, controllers, and building managers tasked with the surveillance of the Romanianization process in companies and buildings.
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See her interview in Uwe Lehners, Karin Gundisch and Alexandru Murat Mironov (eds.), Trasee ale memoriei: Biografii de tineri din România. Amintiri după cincizeci de ani (Bucureşti: ADZ, 2003), 73–75.
According to Sabin Manuilă, head of the Central Statistics Institute, Zwiedeneck joined the local German Ethnic Grup (GEG), the Nazi-style organization of local ethnic Germans during the Antonescu regime. See the 21 October 1944 government meeting minutes, Marcel Dumitru Ciucă (ed.), Stenogramele Şedinţelor Consiliului de Miniştrii: Guvernarea Constantin Sănătescu, vol. II (Bucureşti: Saeculum, 2012), 51.
Theodor Cazaban, Captiv în lumea liberă: Thedor Cazaban în dialog cu Cristian Badiliţă (Cluj: Echinox, 2002), 63–64.
See, for instance, the case recorded by Alice Voinescu in her diary on 1 April 1942. Alice Voinescu, Jurnal (Bucureşti: Albatros, 1997), 374.
Mihai Răutu and Emil Ghilezean worked as Romanianization commissars and Gheorghe Zane as economic commissar. As all political parties were forbidden during the Antonescu regime, Zane and other PNT members adopted a lower political profile and stayed away from their former party colleagues who opposed Antonescu. See Ioan Hudiţă, Jurnal politic: 25 august 1944–3 noiembrie 1944 (Piteşti: Paralela 45, 2006), 237, 242, 314–315; Hudiţă, furnal politic 7 decembrie 1944 – 6 martie 1945, pp. 341, 370–371; Hudiţă, Jurnal politic: 9 februarie 1941–24 iunie 1941, pp. 137–147; Niculescu (ed.), Un martor al istoriei: Emil Ghilezean, 58–61; according to the diary records of Hudiţă, in February 1943, Antonescu blamed PNŢ leaders (friends and relatives of Iuliu Maniu) for profiting as “nationalization commissars in companies confiscated by the state.” Hudiţă, Jurnal politic: 1 februarie 194331 decembrie 1943, p. 70.
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Ionescu, Ş.C. (2015). The Romanianization Bureaucracy. In: Jewish Resistance to “Romanianization,” 1940–44. Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137484598_3
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