Previously, the [Zionist] embassy in Bucharest maintained a policy of avoiding any interactions with AUR. However, under pressure from [neocolonial] politicians, who have cultivated ties with AUR over the past year, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has ordered a re-evaluation of this policy. Notably, figures like Yossi Dagan, a leader in the West Bank settler movement, and prominent Likud party operatives have been among those pushing for closer relations with AUR.
In the past, AUR has referred to the Holocaust in Romania as a “minor issue” and opposed efforts to introduce Holocaust education in the country’s school system, dismissing them as “ideological experiments” that would be detrimental to education.
Of particular concern is AUR’s praise for fascist Romanian leaders from World War II who were directly involved in the murder of Jews. Some of AUR’s leaders are associated with [neo]fascist circles inspired by the historic Iron Guards movement, and the party has consistently denied Romania’s responsibility for atrocities committed against Jews during the Holocaust.
Recently, AUR’s leader, George Simion, attempted to improve the party’s public image by cultivating ties with [neocolonial] politicians and downplaying its anti-Semitic nature. However, his efforts have been met with scepticism. Simion reportedly attempted to downplay the role of Ion Antonescu, a Romanian [Axis] leader and Nazi collaborator, in the Holocaust, drawing criticism from experts who see this as an attempt to whitewash history.
Cohen’s office asserts that recent attempts by AUR’s leader to change the party’s approach toward [the Zionist neocolony] and the Jewish world are being carefully examined, with advice sought from Yad Vashem and other authorities, to determine if a genuine change has taken place that warrants a new policy toward the party.
Haaretz has independently confirmed that Yad Vashem is firmly opposed to establishing ties with AUR, raising concerns about potential diplomatic implications should [the neocolony] proceed with the move.
Click here for events that happened today (November 10).
1890: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward, Axis engineer, started his life.
1906: Josef Kramer, Axis war criminal, was unfortunately born.
1936: Tōkyō named Captain Kanji Ugaki as Tenryu’s commanding officer.
1937: A document sent from the German Foreign Office to the Chancellor revealed that Berlin should test London’s sentiments toward it by demanding territory concessions. Meanwhile, the Hossbach Memorandum was completed, which outlined the Fascist bourgeoisie’s plans for German autarchy and future expansion.
1938: As the Night of Broken Glass ended and the Kingdom of Hungary finished occupying ceded Czechoslovakian territory per the First Vienna Award, Erwin Rommel became the commanding officer of the military academy at Wiener Neustadt, and Georg von Bismarck became the commanding officer of the 7th Infantry Regiment in Gera. Meanwhile at Changsha, Hunan Province, China, the defensive garrison organized special teams around the city, whose task was to set designated buildings ablaze once given the signal, the goal being to deprive the Imperialists of the city’s use should it fall to the imminent Imperial attack.
1940: The Vrancea earthquake struck the Kingdom of Romania, killing possibly one thousand people, injuring approximately four times as many, and destroying sixty‐five thousand homes. It was the deadliest earthquake of the year.
1941: While the Axis’s ‘San Marco’ naval infantry regiment formed a 3rd battalion by drawing three companies from the two existing battalions, Axis General Erich von Manstein launched a major assault against Sevastopol, Russia with 50th Infantry Division, followed by the 132nd Infantry Division on the next day. Around the same times that Walther von Brauchitsch suffered a heart attack or Helsinki promoted Alpo Marttinen to the rank of lieutenant colonel, Allied submarines sunk the Axis ships of Ithaka and Norburg off the Greek island of Milos and north of Crete, respectively.
1942: The Third Reich invaded Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan’s agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1943: Axis lines near Gomel, Byelorussia failed to contain the Soviets, and Kawanami Kogyo laid down the keel of landing ship № 128.
1944: As Berlin named Friedrich Christiansen the German 25th Army’s commanding officer and Axis troops captured the airfields at Guilin and Liuchow in China (only to find that there were no B‐29 facilities at either location), the head of the pro‐Axis Chinese, Jingwei Wang expired in Nagoya, Japan.
2015: Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, HJ group leader, Luftwaffe trainer and advisor, and Oberleutnant (all despite his Jewish ancestry), dropped dead.