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  Iron Guard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Following the king’s abduction in 1940, Marshall Ion Antonescu seized power with the help of the Iron Guard, but soon found himself in disagreement with it.
He suppressed (1941) an Iron Guard rebellion, and Horia Sima, then leader of the Guard and vice premier, fled to Germany.
With the collapse of the Axis Powers in World War II the Iron Guard disappeared from Romanian politics.
www.bartleby.com /65/ir/IronGuar.html   (201 words)

  
  Iron Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given in English to an ultra-nationalist anti-Semitic, fascist movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II.
The main symbol used by the Iron Guard was a triple cross (a variant of the triple parted and fretted one), standing for prison bars (as a badge of martyrdom), and sometimes referred to as the "Archangel Michael Cross" (Crucea Arhanghelului Mihail).
On December 10, 1933 the Romanian Liberal Prime Minister Ion Duca banned the Iron Guard; Iron Guard members retaliated on December 29, 1933 by assassinating Duca on the platform of the Sinaia railway station.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iron_Guard   (1426 words)

  
 The Tragedy of the Romanian 'Iron Guard' : Codreanu
This meeting took place at Codreanu's headquarters, the 'Green House', the Iron Guard's first 'nest', a few months before he was assassinated, along with thirty of his comrades, in the forest of Tancabesti by henchmen of the political schemers who were in office in Bucharest at that time.
This is Corneliu Codreanu, the leader and founder of the Romanian 'Iron Guard', the one who is called 'assassin', 'Hitler's henchman', 'anarchist conspirator', by the world press, because, since 1919, he has been challenging Israel, and the forces which are more or less in cahoots with it, at work in the Romanian national life.
Another typical aspect of the legionarism of the 'Iron Guards' is a sort of ascetic commitment on the part of their leaders : they must refrain from going to dance halls, cinemas or theatres, avoid any display of wealth or even of mere affluence.
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 Fascism - MSN Encarta
The Iron Guard, the most violent and anti-Semitic movement in the country, grew rapidly when the Romanian economy was battered by the global depression of the 1930s.
As the Iron Guard became more powerful, Romanian ruler King Carol II withdrew his initial support for the movement and in 1938 ordered the execution of its top leaders.
Romanian general Ion Antonescu, who was backed by the Iron Guard and by Nazi Germany, demanded that Carol II abdicate his rule.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568245_6/Fascism.html   (1005 words)

  
 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
From then on, the Iron Guard, which had fought persistently against corruption and the disintegration of a nation, was to know only persecution and death; but also from that time on the example of the Iron Guard was to inspire thousand of European nationalists.
Compromising leaders and their parties disappear without a tear being shed whilst the ideal of the Iron Guard remains and inspires each generation, a point of reference for those who would build rather than destroy, whose destiny is compelled by a noble love more than hatred.
Nationalist it was, yet the Iron Guard transcended the barriers of nineteenth century jingoism and extended the hand of friendship to all peoples in struggle.
www.codreanu.ro /thenatrev.htm   (774 words)

  
 The Iron Brigade of the West
The Iron Brigade Guard of the Gettysburg campaign was organized on June 22, 1863, as the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the I Corps marched northward to Pennsylvania.
On the morning of July 1, 1863, as the Iron Brigade double-quicked into the battle of Gettysburg, the Brigade Guard was at the rear of the column.
In the reenactment community, the Iron Brigade Guard has been brought back and is a member of the American Civil War Association.
www.angelfire.com /ca5/ironbrigade/ibg.html   (690 words)

  
 Iron Guard - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
IRON GUARD [Iron Guard] Romanian nationalistic, anti-Semitic, and antiparliamentary group, founded in 1924 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.
Following the king's abduction in 1940, Marshall Ion Antonescu seized power with the help of the Iron Guard, but soon found himself in disagreement with it.
He suppressed (1941) an Iron Guard rebellion, and Horia Sima, then leader of the Guard and vice premier, fled to Germany.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:IronGuar&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (178 words)

  
 Bucharest Iron Guard
The Legionaires (strictly speaking, the "Iron Guard" were their military/"self defense" wing, although the term was often applied by contemporary journalists and later historians to describe the movement as a whole) did indeed revolt against Antonescu.
The "Iron Guard" were highly anti-Semitic, nationalist, by their own lights deeply Christian (their processions on horseback through peasant Romania, wearing their green shirts marked with a cross and carrying candles, Codreanu up front on a white horse, made a deep impression of piety and purpose in many of the villages they passed through).
He chafed at the repeated public brutalities of the Iron Guard (murdering random Jews in batches or specific former government officials in particularly slow and grisly fashion were their usual ways of proceeding) and their general lawlessness, and rebuffed attempts by the Guardist to expand their influence in the government.
homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/articles/level1/bucharest_iron_guard.htm   (771 words)

  
 Romania - The Agrarian Crisis and the Rise of the Iron Guard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peasants flocked to the Iron Guard's ranks, seeking scapegoats for their misery during the agrarian crisis, and the Iron Guard soon became the Balkans' largest fascist party.
Iron Guards battled their opponents in the streets, and railroad workers went on strike.
Carol's tolerance for the Iron Guard's violence wore thin, and on April 19 the police arrested and imprisoned Codreanu and other Iron Guard leaders and cracked down on the rank and file.
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 Iron legion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Romanian Iron Guard was a spiritual-political association formed in Romania during the 1920´s.
During sptember 1940 - january 1941 the Iron Guard was the only political organization allowed in the state and the Commander of the Guard was the second man in power after Ion Antonescu.
In 1941 the Iron Guard had to leave the country as a short civil war started between them and Antonescu.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iron_legion   (111 words)

  
 Armand Călinescu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His ferm opposition to the fast rise of the fascist Iron Guard (the Legionaries) led to the fall of the 1933 Alexandru Vaida-Voevod's government (of which he was a member).
In September 1939, after the invasion of Poland, the pro-Nazi members of Iron Guard alleged that he and the King Carol planned with the British Intelligence services to blow up Prahova oil fields, preventing Germany to take control and use them.
He was assassinated in Bucharest by Iron Guard members under the direct leadership of Horia Sima: his automobile was blocked by the assassins', who shot Călinescu, his bodyguard, and his driver; and over twenty bullets were recovered from the ministers' body.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armand_Calinescu   (387 words)

  
 Iron Guard: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Horia sima (july 3, 1907-1993) was the second and last leader of romanias iron guard in the second world war....
The Iron Guard were particularly infamous for the virulence with which they participated in what was later to become known as the Holocaust[Click link for more facts about this topic].
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ir/iron_guard.htm   (2438 words)

  
 Iron Guard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given in English to an ultra-nationalist, anti-Semitic, fascist movement andpolitical party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II.
In March 1930 Codreanu formed the "Iron Guard" (Garda de Fier) as a paramilitary political branch ofthe Legion; this name eventually came to refer to the Legion itself.
The Iron Guard were particularly infamous for the virulence with which they participated in what was later to become known asthe Holocaust.
www.therfcc.org /iron-guard-57110.html   (739 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Iron Guard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Antonescu desired to bring the Iron Guard under his direct control, because their paramilitary activities were undermining the authority of the state.
The guard went again to to him and fired two shots in the head and after this the doctor said that Vasiliu too was dead." [1].
Starting at the end of October, 1940, the Iron Guard began a massive anti-Semitic campaign, torturing and beating Jews and looting their shops, culminating in the failed coup and a pogrom in Bucharest in which 120 Jews were killed.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iron-Guard   (3765 words)

  
 Holocaust Revealed
This can serve to explain the suspension of Iron Guard racist legislative activity in the middle of November, by which stage the terror had started to blossom and it was becoming increasingly clear why the Iron Guards were not expropriating Jewish real estate in towns or that belonging to commercial and industrial firms.
This terror was organised by "the Iron Guard Movement" and by certain ministers led by the deputy prime minister, Horia Sima.
The Iron Guard system drowned in blood and ashes, and the activity of the Jewish leadership was a contributory factor.
www.logon.org /_domain/holocaustrevealed.org/Romania/Matatias/Iron_Guard3.htm   (7238 words)

  
 Tree Pit Guards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A tree pit guard is a low fence, usually made of wood or iron, that is installed at the edge of a tree pit.
This guard remains effective especially where the risk of contamination by salt and chemicals is low.
A pit guard that is harmful to the tree.
www.treesny.com /trees_pitguards.htm   (1370 words)

  
 Iron Guard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In March 1930 Codreanu formed the "Iron Guard" (Garda Fier) as a paramilitary political branch of Legion; this name eventually came to refer the Legion itself.
On December 10 1933 Liberal Prime Minister Ion Duca banned the Iron Guard; Iron Guard retaliated on December 29 1933 by assassinating Duca on the platform the Sinaia railway station.
Essays on that site provide a picture of the growth of the Iron and the legionary movement the cultural aspects the movement and the involvement of the Guard in the Holocaust as well as year-by-year chronology of the Iron Guard its groups and rival fascist and proto-fascist movements in 1910.
www.freeglossary.com /Iron_Guard   (1144 words)

  
 FAGANARMS EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN EDGED WEAPONS PAGE 9
Iron hilt with slender urn form pommel, iron grip, flattened knuckle bow developing to offset quillon and fretted edge disk guard.
Iron hilt with urn form pommel, dished oval disk guard, D form knuckle bow and down turned quillon terminal.
Crude forged iron guard with D form knuckle bow expanding to disc cross guard and integral rolled quillon.
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 Home Page
The Legion of the Archangel Michael, known in the foreign press as the Iron Guard, was the principal fascist movement in Romania during the interwar period.
The Iron Guard was violent, anti-Semitic and nationalistic, characteristics common to all European fascist movements.
The Iron Guard's deeply religious principles and ability to appeal to peasants and young people, who comprised most of the Iron Guard's members, make it surprisingly unique among fascist movements that tended to reject religion and appeal, for the most part, to veterans.
hist.academic.claremontmckenna.edu /jpetropoulos/ironguard   (236 words)

  
 Iron Guard — FactMonster.com
Iron Guard, Romanian nationalistic, anti-Semitic, and antiparliamentary group, founded in 1924 by Corneliu Zelea
Originally named the Legion of the Archangel Michael, it was organized on military lines and operated through terrorism.
Banned in 1933, the Iron Guard carried on as the All-for-the-Fatherland party.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0825503.html   (229 words)

  
 Romania's Partial Progress in Minority Issues
In 1940, King Carol II was overthrown, and the Iron Guard was declared the sole legal party of the National Legionary State, with Sima as Vice President.
It is possible that his proposal to re-establish the Iron Guard is based on his uncle's theories of the nation as a religious entity and not on a return to fascist principles per se.
However, at least originally, the ideals of the Iron Guard were represented in Parliament by a separate organisation, a party called 'Everything for the Fatherland'.
www.ce-review.org /99/3/lovatt3.html   (1403 words)

  
 Centropa Quarterly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Carol's policies having brought humiliation to Rumania, the Iron Guard accused him of treachery, and he was deposed in a bloodless coup in September 1940 by a military group under General Ion Antonescu, long associated with the Iron Guard.
The Antonescu coalition was torn by violent conflict between the army and the Iron Guard.
After a bloody clash between them in January 1941 in Bucharest, in which the Iron Guard carried out a terrible massacre of the Jews and its other ‘enemies', the army won complete control of the country, which was then ruled by a military dictatorship under Antonescu.
www.centropa.org /reports.asp?rep=HR&ID=6707&TypeID=36658   (1738 words)

  
 Skirmisher's Sword Shop (SKIRMISHER Online Gaming Magazine)
The wooden handle is covered in leather and is supported by a simple,elegant guard and an equally handsom 5 lobed pommel.
Cold Steel's¨ modern recreation of this classic fighting sword is as authentic as possible and virtually an exact copy of an original in the personal collection of Cold Steel¨ President Lynn C. Thompson.
The handles are fashioned from carefully shaped hardwood painted brown and secured to the full tang by three heavy brass cutler's rivets.
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 Kingdom of Romania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The 1930s saw the rise of a number of ultra-nationalist parties, notably the quasi-mystical fascist Iron Guard movement, exploiting nationalism, fear of communism, and resentment of alleged foreign and Jewish domination of the economy.
On February 10, 1938, in order to prevent the formation of a government that would have included Iron Guardministers, and in direct confrontation to Adolf Hitler 's expressed supportof the Iron Guard, King Carol II dismissed the government andinstituted a short-lived royal dictatorship.
LANC member (later Iron Guard founder) C.Z. Codreanu assassinates Prefect of Police in Iaşi, but is acquitted.
www.therfcc.org /kingdom-of-romania-163573.html   (724 words)

  
 Post-War Romania
On September 6, 1940, the Iron Guard, with the support of Germany and renegade military officers led by the premier, General Ion Antonescu, forced the king to abdicate.
With Antonescu's blessing, the Iron Guard unleashed a reign of terror.
In November 1940, Iron Guards thirsty for vengeance broke into the Jilava prison and butchered sixty-four prominent associates of King Carol on the same spot where Codreanu had been shot.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/RomaPM.html   (5417 words)

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