Bucharest, in the terrible and humiliating winter during the German occupation. After the war, when the blankets were also confiscated from the citizens of Bucharest at gunpoint
Bucharest – winter of 1954; snow removal action at the North Station. photo source: Agerpres
Picture a day in February, 1917: cold, hunger and severe deprivation, strict censorship of the press and correspondence, public buildings and private houses requisitioned by the occupiers.
The people of Bucharest were whispering about the war, with the hope that the Romanian army would resist in Moldova. King Ferdinand, Queen Maria and members of the government took refuge in Iași, so that at least something of the heart of the Romanian state would remain.
In December 1916, by Saint Dumitru, the protector of Bucharest whose relics were to be stolen by Bulgarian soldiers, the city was invaded by the German army. Marshal Mackensen enters the Capital in a car driven by one of the many Germans who lived in the city, and the victorious army parades through the center of the city.
Read, on B365.ro, about the state of mind of the people of Bucharest at that time and about the winter when the occupiers also confiscated their blankets, and whoever opposed was shot
