Le progrom de Iasi : Sur la responsabilité des autorités de l’état roumain dans la mise en scène, la préparation et l’exécution du pogrom de Iasi et sur l’établissement du nombre des victimes

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The Iasi PogromThe Iasi Pogrom (June 28-30, 1941) was carried out under the explicit orders of Ion Antonescu. Units of the German army based in Iasi assisted the Romanians in their anti-Semitic acts, but they did not prepare or execute the pogrom which took place eight days after the launching of Operation Barbarossa. It was in fact a prelude to the mass murders to be committed by Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe.Although the bloody operation was entirely Romanian, Antoescu’s regime would never have dared to work out a plan of this scope and magnitude – part of a secret strategy to put an end to the Jewish presence in Moldavia – without the presence of the German army.This is why the Iasi Pogrom was planned by the same organs that later would be in charge of planning the extermination of the Jews of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. As it is often the case during mass murders, there were rumors of alleged complicity between the Jews and the Soviet enemy. However, there was not even one incidence during the pogrom that could be defined as a burst of spontaneous violence. On the contrary, everything indicates that the horror was the result of an orchestrated plan hatched several days before the mass murder began.