Object ID
2014.1.253
Object Name
Stamp, Postage
Date
1940
Files
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Description
Three stamps mounted on blue paper. The left stamp is brown and shows a young man. The middle stamp has a green and black geometric design on a white background. The right stamp shows the young man again.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Two stamps with pictures of Codrenau, the founder of the Iron Guard, and a stamp bearing the symbol of the Iron Guard. The Iron Guard was the right-wing movement and political party in Romania beginning in 1927 and lasting until World War II. It was ultra-nationalistic, fascistic, anti-communist and promoted the Orthodox Christian faith. It was virulently antisemitic, even demanding a policy of state-wide antisemitism. When Ion Antonescu came to power in September 1940 he brought the Iron Guard into the government, at which point it launched extremely violent and murderous attacks on Jews. In 1941, Antonescu suppressed the Iron Guard revolt. The Iron Guard's commander Horia Sima and other leaders escaped to Germany.
Dimensions
1 1/8 x 1 5/16" each
Keywords
Romania, Iron Guard, Stamp
Subcollection
Filderman
Recommended Citation
"Romanian Iron Guard Legion Stamps" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.253.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/513