Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.

Ion Antonescu

Dictator of Romania from 1940 to 1944

Ion Antonescu was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. Having been responsible for facilitating the Holocaust in Romania, he was overthrown in 1944, before…