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Chapters: Radu Lecca, Radu Beligan, Relu Fenechiu, Eugen Cristescu, Ilie Verdeţ, Petre Grigoraş, Gheorghe Vrânceanu, Nicolae Matei, Vasile Pârvan, Ion Gr. Oprişan, Dumitru Berbece, Lucian Vasilache. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Radu Lecca (February 15, 18901980) was a Romanian spy, journalist, civil servant and convicted war criminal. A World War I veteran who served a prison term for espionage France during the early 1930s, he was a noted supporter of antisemitic concepts and, after 1933, an agent of influence for Nazi Germany. While becoming a double agent for Romania's Special Intelligence Service (SSI), Lecca was involved in fascist politics, gained in importance during World War II and the successive dictatorships, and eventually grew close to Conductor Ion Antonescu. After 1941, Lecca was Commissioner, later Commissioner General, tasked with solving the "Jewish Question" in Romania, sharing Romania's responsibility for the Holocaust. Advised by the special German envoys Manfred Freiherr von Killinger and Gustav Richter and acting with Antonescu's consent, he established the Central Jewish Office (Centrala Evreiasc, CE) through which he persecuted, exploited and extorted the Romanian Jewish community, whose was threatened with deportation to Transnistria. The system he supervised was notoriously corrupt, with many of the funds extorted being used for the personal benefit of Lecca or his political associates. Commissioner Lecca was also instrumental in negotiating the Final Solution's application in Romania, a plan which was eventually abandoned, while considering mass emigration to Palestine in exchange for payments. After the August 1944 Coup removed Antonescu and aligned Romania with the Allies, Lecca was among the high-ranking Roma...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22225487 ... Read more