ROMANIA’S HOLY WAR: A THOUGHTFUL STUDY by Grant T. Harward

Abstract

World War II is a difficult subject in the Romania’s past, which needs to be approached with clarity and intellectual honesty. The state and society engaged in one of the biggest massacres of their history, the Holocaust against the Jewish and Roma populations. Romania started the war as a defeated and humiliated country and ended it in a similar condition after horrific losses, under foreign occupation. Grant T. Harward’s study, Romania’s Holy War, Soldiers, Motivation and the Holocaust, is an important contribution to the effort of understanding and grasping with the event of that period.