Romanian 'Christian' regimes from 1940 to 1944 and their attitude towards Jews, the Church, the clergy, the press

The role of the Romanian Orthodox Church between the two world wars in unifying the country and supporting its anti-democratic, anti-semitic and fascist forces was crucial. This process contributed to the demonisation of the Jew and his forcible expulsion from society. The Romanian Orthodox Church had insufficient moral force to prevent this development, becoming a tool in the hands of successive Romanian governments. It had absorbed Christian religious anti-semitism in its entirety, making it and its clergy partially responsible for the tragedy of Romanian Jewry.