Jewish-Communist gangs in Czernowitz? The origin and impact of a constructed enemy stereotype

Exposes the myth that the Jews were responsible for the 'national disgrace' in the summer of 1940 when Romania had to retreat from Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia due to the Soviet ultimatum.The alleged Jewish-Communist gangs in Czernowitz and elsewhere, which neatly fitted the 'thesis' of Judeo-Bolshevism, were an invention of the Romanian propaganda machine to create a scapegoat and justify violence against the Jewish population