Unknown picture with romanian soldiers in WW2

Thanks. I have called them.

And, what did they say?

They invited me to them. Some interesting facts i have discovered in his military service record papers reprinted in 1954 by communists. They specified that he was private, but someone cuted with another pen wrote sergeant. They also didn't mentioned anything about his military duty from 22th Jun 1941 until early 1945 and they didn't write any of his wounds he got, although in Tatra his left foot heel was destroyed by a MP40 Daimler Puch bullet.





At decorations receieved the communists mentioned only "Eliberarea de sub jugul fascist", but they didn't mentioned Iron Class and another german decoration he received later on the Eastern Front. Like i have told you, used to play with the Iron Cross you can see in that picture, when i was a little boy. He also received something called "Cruciade against bolshevism" from Romanian Army.



He was made sergeant in 1990, after the Romania wasn't a communist country anymore. Until then he was only a private, although he have fought from Jun 22th until early 1945.

Not to mention unwanted events in military records was specific to comunists.

The Red Army fighting in Finland in early 1940's had the same situations. There were soviet soldiers who fought in Finland and they had no records in theyr militatry documents that they did so. When they asked soviet authorities why those periods were not recorded, they were simply told that there never was a war in Finland.

This is also a form of manipulating and lying.

I do have access to the 2nd Regiment's war files thanks to Romanian Defense Ministery.