Gavril Olteanu
Gavril Olteanu was a leader of a Romanian paramilitary militia group, part of the Maniu Guards during World War II, which became notorious for the killing and deportation of ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania.[1]
On 26 September 1944, members of the paramilitary Maniu Guard led by Gavril Olteanu massacred a number of Hungarian civilians in Aita Seacă village, Sândominic, Huedin, Aghireş, and other localities around Transylvania.
At the request of Soviet representatives Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Vyshinsky and Vladislav Petrovich Vinogradov on behalf of the Allied Control Commission,[2] Romanian authorities disbanded the Maniu Guard, arrested Gavril Olteanu, and sentenced him to imprisonment.[3] He died in the prison at Aiud in 1950.
Notes
- ↑ Nagy MZ. "Power Changes and Self-administration in Northern Transsylvania 12 November 1944 – 13 March 1945" (in English; original in Hungarian). Retrieved 2007-06-22.
- ↑ Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AMFA), note nr. V 120 from November 12, 1944
- ↑ Ionuţ Ţene in Napoca News, December 6, 2009 "Transilvania de Nord între eliberarea de sub horthyişti şi ocupaţia sovietică (septembrie 1944 – martie 1945)" [in Romanian]
External links
- Atrocities against Hungarians p30-32
- Genocide in Transylvania: nation on the death row
- Chronicle of Cruelties pp80-85
- Romania and Transylvania in the 20th Century, Ildikó Lipcsey p54
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