Ion Antonescu's execution

On 1 June 1946 Ion Antonescu, Romania's dictator between 6 September 1940 and 23 August 1944, is executed by a military firing squad. Antonescu had undergone a Nuremberg-style trial as a war criminal and had been sentenced to death.

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