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Dr. Grant T. Harward Profile picture
Dr. Grant T. Harward
@GHarward
Father, native Californian, and Fulbrighter. I am a US Army historian. I research the Romanian Army in WWII in my free time. Opinions my own.
Jul 15 • 50 tweets • 7 min read
This was probably my favorite Star Wars film to watch as a kid - on VHS in the '90s - when selected edited with @E1educador using the FFW button after Jabba's palace to watch the cool space battle. (Now that I'm not 9, Empire Strikes Back is my favorite.) #HATM Matte paintings. So good! (Although they were a lot less notable on VHS.) #HATM
May 30 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
This 🧵 is devoid of context & doesn't show any of the violence of the Iron Guard , royal & military dictatorships, or the war & the Holocaust.

So here's 15 more images of Romania during the interwar peirod & WW2 showing the violence with context. 1. Fascist Legionaries (Iron Guardists) showing off their cuts, bruises, & other injuries after the 1933 elections when they engaged in street violence to target rival political groups & intimidate voters. Image
Jul 16, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
With all the 80th anniversary of the battle of Kursk & invasion of Sicily tweets, I thought I'd do a 🧵 about the fighting in the Kuban bridgehead at this time to highlight Romanian soldiers on the eastern front. 1/10 #Romania #WW2 #SWW #OTD Image Just mentioning that Romanian troops were still fighting in the frontline is important.

After #Stalingrad, Italy withdrew all its forces from the USSR & Hungary only had 2 divisions in the rear.

In contrast, Romania had 6 divisions on the front & 3 divisions in the rear. 2/10
Jun 26, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
On 26 June 1940, 1 day after France's armistice with Nazi Germany went into effect, the USSR delivered an ultimatum to Romania demanding Bessarabia & N Bukovina. The Soviet occupation began 2 days later. The traumatic 4-day Romanian withdrawal hastened Romania's joining the Axis. "Long live the Soviet Bessarabia and the Soviet Bukovina."

Soviet propaganda celebrated the occupation of Romanian territories that took place under near combat conditions with a river crossing over the Dniester & air drops as well as air transports at a rapid pace.
Dec 30, 2022 • 34 tweets • 7 min read
OK @FightingOnFilm, it's time for some Mehmed II the Conqurer vs. Vlad III Dracula action! The casting isn't too bad I don't think @fakehistoryhunt. OK. Let's get ready to rumble!!!
Nov 19, 2022 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
#OTD 80 years ago Operation Uranus, the Soviet counteroffensive at #Stalingrad began at 5:30 AM with an 80-minute barrage against Romanian 3rd Army on the Don Bend NW of the city. Artillery, rockets, & heavy mortars blasted apart trenches, cut barbed wire, & collapsed shelters.🧵 Image Soviet armor, accompanied by infantry, immediately followed the bombardment with two attacks thrusting out from the Serafimovich & Kletskaya bridgeheads. A thick fog concealed the Soviet advance hindering the Romanian response until the enemy was extremely close.
Sep 16, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
#OTD in 1942 Vice Prime Minister Mihai Antonescu announced a temporary halt to deportations of Jews, and Roma (Gypsies), from Romania. A crucial change in policy. A 🧵 below. 1/
#Romania #Jews #Roma #Holocaust #Transnistria #Auschwitz #Stalingrad Image After mass deportations of Jews from Bessarabia & Bukovina to Transnistria in summer/fall 1941, the Antonescu regime had only deported individual Jews as a punishment, mostly for avoiding forced labor. In 1942, 306 Jewish men, plus 249 family members, had been so punished. 2/