Why Did Romania Join Operation Barbarossa?

Romania joined the Triparte Pact on 23 November 1940. Romania became an Axis Power. After the First World War România Mare (Great Romania) was created. Interwar Romania was part of the Little Entente in order to keep the status quo. That changed after the Munich Conference in 1938. After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939) the Soviets demanded control over Bessarabia and North Bukovina. The Hungarians gained Northern Transylvania (via the Second Vienna Award). Bulgaria got Southern Dobruja. Led by Ion Antonescu the Romanian Army would take part in Operation Barbarossa. After securing its lost territories the Romanians advanced further into the USSR. After the Siege of Odessa the Transnistria Governate was proclaimed. Near Stalingrad the Romanian Army would suffer huge losses.
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– Joining Hitler's Crusade. European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941 (David Stahel) Romania (Dennis Deletant).
– Third Axis Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941-1945 (Mark Axworthy).
– Death on the Don. The Destruction of Germany's Allies on the Eastern Front 1941-44 (Jonathan Trigg).
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