May 25, 1997

de Ovidiu GULES

On July 3, 1906 , in the village Mandra, near Fagaras - Southern Transylvania , Horia Sima was born. When he was about five, his father died. He had a hard childhood, he became a peasant at a very early age. When he went to school, the teachers detected in him a little genius. His love for knowledge was carefully cultivated, the same as his religious education. In 1927, few months after Corneliu Codreanu founded the Legion of St. Michael the Archangel in Iasi , he was a brilliant student at the University of Bucharest , following Nae Ionescu's class of Literature and Philosophy. In November '27 he joined the Legion, entering one of its first cuibs [nests]. 

After graduating he chooses to establish as a profesor in Banat , the Western province. He teached at Lugoj and Caransebes. He prepared his students not only professionaly but also for the life of struggle requiered by the nationalist movement. So he created a high density of young generations devouted to the Legion. Because of his results, Corneliu Codreanu [the Captain] gave him the rank of Legionary Commander and named him the Legionary Chief of Banat . In less than a decade he raised the counties of Banat on the top of the Legionary fight. In 1937, after the Legionary success in the elections [ Arad county, Northern Banat , was the Number One county with the Legionary votes], the Captain was worried about the probable repression that will be unchained by Carol II and his Jewish allies. Everybody was happy because of the victory at the polls but the Captain. It was at the Green House in Bucharest [the Legionary Headquarters]; all the leaders were ordered to come and talk in private with the Captain about the new situation. There were great men of the Iron Guard there, each entered in the Captain's bureau and spent there about ten to twenty minutes receiving instructions. Among them was one, less known in Bucharest , he spent more than an hour in private with the Captain. When he was dismissed, he briefly dissapeared. People were intrigued: "-Who is this one?", asked they the Captain. "-He is my man for the tough times!", the Captain answered. It was Horia Sima.

And the tough times came. The Captain and most of the elite were arrested, the democracy abolished [when democracy helps the Iron Guard it has to be abolished] and the dictatorship of pro-Soviet pro-Jewish Carol II proclaimed. The war between the nation and the state got in it's final act. An underground Commanding Group was now coordinating the Iron Guard's activity. Horia Sima was among the five of the Group. He had the chance to show his conspiracy qualities creating squads prepared to react if the police would harm the Captain. While in prison, Corneliu Codreanu ordered the Legionaries not to surrend but to resist and, if necessary, to fight back. It was necessary after November 30, 1938 , when the red beasts [under the order of Armand Calinescu] assasinated Corneliu Codreanu together with 13 of his best comrades. In January 1939, an accident unveiled the plan to attack the Royal Palace with fire launchers. Because of treason, many Legionaries were caught by the police, but also the state knew that only by pointing the gun he can stand over the nation by fear. Early in 1939, Horia Sima had to run to Germany . He will be back in the summer, condcucting one of the most important actions of our history. Armand Calinescu, Carol's PM, planned with the British Intelligence to blow up the Prahova oil fields so that the Germans will never get on them [it was a strategic issue for Germany ]. While Germany was attacking Poland , Armand C. ordered the Brits to blow up the oil fields. What could have been the consequences for Romania ? The Wehrmacht would immediately attacked Romania and the Russians too, from the East. The Molotov - Ribentropp agreement was already signed. Under that circumstances, Romania would have shared the fate of Poland : being erased out of the Europe 's map [ Hungary and Bulgaria dearly wishing to break us apart]. So, PM Armand Calinescu's plan was extremely dangerous to Romania 's national security and he had to be stoped, by any means. Horia Sima was there, disguised in a peasant who stoped the official car by 'accident' with his chariot. Then the Team of Miti Dumitrescu entered in action and shot the traitor to dead. Besides this geostrategical issue, there was on the top priorities the REVENGE for the Captain's assasination. Carol was so furious that he ordered more than 250 Legionaries to be shot at once - most of them were kept unburried for three days long in the main cities downtowns. After a short while, Horia Sima will leave again for Germany .

In the spring of 1940, Horia Sima will come back this time with the declared intention to overthrow - by any means - the pro-Soviet government. He was caught on the Serbian - Romanian border and sent to Bucharest . They intended to kill him after torture. But the astonishing German advance over France and the fall of Paris made them think twice. Horia Sima was gambling as a smart poker player who has nothing in his cards [because the Germans prefered a weak Romania at the moment disposed at any bargain and not a Legionary Romania with pretentions]. The Freemasons in Bucharest were thinking that Horia Sima was sent by Hitler [nonsense] and thus they started to negociate with him. He obtained all the prisoners out of camps and jails, the end of repression. He asked to be the new PM and to form his Legionary Govt. Instead Carol gave him a bureau of Secretary of State for religion. After three days he resigned and retired in the underground to set up the revolution. Meanwhile Carol agreed with the dismantling of Romania : he gave the Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia to Soviet Russia, the Northern Transylvania to Hungary , the Southern Dobroudja to Bulgaria without any opposition.

On September 3, 1940 , the Iron Guard is attacking the Radio Station Bod near Brasov , one Military Unit in Brasov , the telecommunications centers in many cities. In Bucharest , the Legionaries crushed a lorry full of petrol on the Royal Palace and spread the rumor that the Royal Palace is burning. The population, unconfortable because of Carol's territorial cessions without resistance, filled the streets. Rivers of people came to Bucharest downtown shouting: 'HORIA SIMA, GIVE US TRANSYLVANIA BACK!' In three days, the Army took the side of the Revolution and Carol was forced to abdicate and to run in exile. The National Legionary State was proclaimed on September 14, 1940 , with Gen. Antonescu as Conducator and PM, Horia Sima as vice President of the Govt. and King Michael head of the state. Some enemies are accusing the Legionary government of totalitarianism. It is false indeed, because there was a Monarchy backed by a mixed Military and Legionary govt.

This marriage wasn't to last very long. Only for five months. Antonescu was a French educated military with great personal ambitions and nothing more [he considered the state was him and thus he loved the state by slefloving his person]. In 1938, when Carol II proclaimed the abolishment of democracy, Gen. Antonescu was nominated for the Defense Ministry. In this position he threatened the Iron Guard that he will order fire if there will be rebellions against the tyranny of the King. Seing him as a dangerous person, Carol marginalized and rejected the General. As a revenge, he chose to play the Legion's part and to get rid of Carol. Now he wanted to get rid of Horia Sima and to transform the Iron Guard in some ordinary military units. All the spirit of Codreanu valued nothing compared with his ambitions. Antonescu found good ground at Berlin . The German superficiality in Foreign Affairs made him the favorite, the Germans swalloed all his lies against the Legionaries [including that they would have been "Russian agents", not only untrue but stupid accusation]. In January 1941, Antonescu starts a putsch to overthrow Horia Sima and the Iron Guard. It was a total failure. Everywhere in Romania the Army fraternized with the Legion. Seeing himself alone, he asked for the German panzers to back him. So, in order to avoid a confrontation between the Legion and the Wehrmacht, Horia Sima ordered the retreat.

Horia Sima together with about 400 Legionaries were in Germany as political prisoners during the war. In December 1942, disagreeing with the German wrong doings on the Eastern front and feeling that Antonescu started a duplicitary policy in order to betray Germany , Horia Sima will conspiratively run in Italy , to meet Mussolini and to obtain his support for regaining power in Romania for the Legion. But Gestapo was too fast. He is arrested and prepared to be shot. In a moment of lucidity, Hitler switched his rage and ordered the Legionaries to be sent to the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. There the SS threatened with death the Legionaries in order to reject Horia Sima as their leader. This attempt fell down, less than 5% reacted as the Germans estimated; the overwhelming majority remained trustful to Horia Sima.

After King Michael's treason of August 23, 1944 [a direct consequence of the German treason against the Iron Guard in 1941, and of the uncovered credit accorded by Berlin to Antonescu who had no political support], Hitler reconsidered his attitude and granted the new offer of the Iron Guard to fight along with Germany against the Russians. Horia Sima stated that he is fighting exclusevily on the East. The National Romanian Govt. of Vienna was formed under Horia Sima's rule, together with the Romanian National Army. Despite he was betrayed by his ally, Horia Sima chose to enter on the side of Germany in the last months of the war, knowing that almost everything was lost. He couldn't accept that the Romanian soldier, after three years of fighting together with the Germans on the Russian front, deserves the fate and the name of the traitor. The govt. in Bucharest represented the Soviet occupant and the anti-Romanian interests. Horia Sima's govt. in Vienna guarded the spirit of honour and European comradeship. During the war, about 400 Legionaries were sent behind the frontline in the occupied Romania and they were creating the structures of the guerrilla war in the Carpathians and Transylvanian Alps which the Iron Guard carried out until 1957. A Regiment of the National Romanian Army fought on the Oder defending Berlin .

After the war, Gen. Franco's Spain hosted Horia Sima. There he wrote most of his works: over 25 titles on doctrine, history and politics.

In 1951, Horia Sima collaborated with the US and French intelligence which gave him airplanes and military bases from which armed groups of Legionaries were sent behind the Iron Curtain to fight against the Soviets. The missions had good results. In 1953, after a too large scale action, they were caught and executed after a resounding communist trial in Bucharest .

In 1990, immediately after Ceausescu's fall, Horia Sima settled his new plan. The one we are now living in. The young Romanian generations of the bloody Revolution of '89 learned a lot about the Legion and discovered it as the eternal core of our nation.

Horia Sima is the one who kept alive this spirit of Faith, Honour and Justice until our days.

He passed away in exile, May 25, 1993 , at 87 years, by a heart attack.

God Bless his memory!    

HORIA SIMA, PRESENT!

THE CAPITAIN

by Radbod  

"In place of the weak and beaten man who bends with every breeze, a man who is all too common in politics and other fields, we must create for this nation a man who does not bend, who is inflexible."

Codreanu was born on September 13, 1899 in Iasi, Romania. He became a Romanian political activist and founder of the country's principal National Revolutionary movement, the Iron Guard. Codreanu participated widely in anti-communist and pro-Christian activities during his university years at Iasi (1919-22). Active in the Romanian student movement against liberals in 1922 he helped found the Association of Christian Students, which, from 1923 to 1927, he affiliated with the League of National Christian Defense (LANC), headed by university Professor A.C. Cuza. Codreanu was arrested and imprisoned in 1923 for threatening to kill "traitors"; arrested again on a murder charge in 1925, he was acquitted.
   The Christian Defense League enlisted a considerable number of well-educated men, probably the élite of Romania's intellectuals but it never had the slightest chance of attaining such political power that it could sensibly influence the destiny of Romania. So in 1927 Codreanu broke with the LANC to form his movement.
   On June 24, 1927, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, together with a few battle-tested comrades, founded the Legion of the Archangel St. Michael. In all his writings, Codreanu, known to all Romanians as "The Captain", referred to the Legion of the Archangel Michael as the Legionary Movement.
   In 1930 he also established a militant subdivision within this group called the Iron Guard (1930), the name which outsiders would eventually apply to the movement at large. Of great significance on the occasion of the founding of the Legion of the Archangel Michael are Codreanu's words: "Those whose faith in God and the Legion have no boundary should enter our ranks. Those who waver and doubt should stay out."
   The Legion of the Archangel Michael represented a nationalistic movement, whose aim was to change the individual and create a new "state of mind" of the nation. The Movement itself was not a political party. However, the Movement participated in the political arena in Romania with a party known as "Everything For The Fatherland" (TOTUL PENTRU TARA). In the elections of 1937 this party had a resounding success. By 1937 it had become the third largest party in the state.
   The religious difference prevented cooperation between the Iron Guard and the LANC, although both had the same primary objective, the liberation of Romania from domination and exploitation by its voracious and insatiable parasites. In the name of Cuza's organization, 'Christian' was probably used ambiguously to mean 'non-Jewish.' The organization's leaders and publications were rationalistic. Professor Cuza's creed was the elegant scepticism of Renan. Professor Iorga's historical works treat Christianity with cold objectivity. And Octavian Goga ... seems to have held at heart a view of Christianity similar to that set forth in Nietzsche's famous Genealogy of Morals.

With the Legionary Movement Codreanu almost attained in Romania the position held by Mussolini in Italy and by Hitler in Germany. It can be reasonably argued that he would have succeeded, had he not had to face an obstacle they did not have to surmount, a stupid and venal king. With the help of the political leaders and the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy, King Carol II abolished the constitution and assumed dictatorial power. The first act of suppression of the new dictator was the dissolution of all political parties. Despite official persecution by the pro-nazi state, the Iron Guard had become a powerful movement within the country; but the electoral successes of "Everything For The Fatherland" moved the dictatorial king Carol II to dissolve it in January and imprison Codreanu in April 1938. This started the most brutal persecution of the Legionary Movement. During this time all the leaders of the Movement were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps and prisons. From 1938 to 1940 Romanian jails were filled with Legionnaires. After having appeased Hitler and having obtained his assurance of "no interference in internal affairs", Carol II ordered the assassination of Codreanu. During the night of November 29-30, 1938, Codreanu and thirteen Legionnaires were strangled to death on orders of the corrupt totalitarian King Carol II in the hand of a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy. Most of the leaders of the Legionary Movement were killed during the followin period of time, taken out of prisons and concentration camps and machine-gunned to death.

From 1938 to 1940 the Legionary Movement was headed by different Legionnaires. All of these leaders were killed.
On September 3, 1940 Horia Sima succeeded in over- throwing Carol II. After this "over-throw" of the King, Horia Sima was accepted and anointed as the leader of the Movement. In the new government of Romania, Horia Sima took the position of Vice President.
   In January 1941 General Antonescu, with the help of Hitler, assumed military dictatorship and unleashed a new persecution against the Legionary Movement. Horia Sima and over 400 Legionnaires took refuge in Germany. As political refugees, Horia Sima and the other Legionnaires were incarcerated in the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Dachau and Oranienburg.
   In August 23, 1944 King Michael, with the help of the leaders of the political parties, arrested General Antonescu and committed the shameful act of treason against its ally, Germany. The Romanian army entered the war against Germany.
   On August 26, 1944 Horia Sima formed the National Romanian Government and became the President of the Romanian Government, with headquarters in Vienna. The Legionary Movement in Exile, under the leadership of Horia Sima, continued the fight against communism.

As the American scholar Dr. Revilo Oliver stated, the Iron Guard and the career of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu deserve the closest study by all who are interested in the dynamics of politics. The force of Codreanu's charisma is shown by the devotion he inspired. Time has not withered it. Forty-five years and more after he was murdered, forty years after the country was seized by the Soviet arm of the Judaeo-Communists who triumphed in 1945, the loyal survivors of the Iron Guard are working to ensure the preservation of the historical record by having the essential documents translated into the major languages of Europe.

"There is, among all those in various parts of the world who serve their people, a kinship of sympathy, as there is such a kinship among those who labour for the destruction of peoples."
   "This country is dying of lack of men, not of lack of programmes: at least this is our opinion. That, in other words, it is not programmes that we must have, but men, new men."
   "But the most important of all is the spiritual patrimony, because it alone bears the seal of eternity, it alone transcends all times. The ancient Greeks are with us today not because of their physiques, no matter how athletic--those are only ashes now--nor because of their material wealth, if they had such, but because of their culture.A nation lives forever through its concepts, honor, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honor, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honor at all costs."
   "All the enemy's attempts against us will be crushed; all plans to tempt us, all endeavors to buy our souls, all endeavors to divide us, as well as any betrayals among ourselves, all will fall to the ground. Look them right in the eye - all your tyrants! Endure with resignation all blows, support any torture, for the sacrifice of all of us will be the foundation of iron, of broken bodies, and of tortured souls for victory.
   Those from among us who will fall, will have heroes' names and graves! While those who will kill us, will carry the stigma of traitor and will be accused from generation to generation. From the dephts the legionary emerges victorius! With his soul of rock. Those believing they can defeat him as well as those who think they can buy him, will be convinced soon - but too late - that they were mistaken."

In a materialistic world Codreanu based his Movement on the following principles:
I .... FAITH IN GOD
   Corneliu Codreanu was of the firm conviction that politics could not be separated from religion. Only men who have respect for the Divine Order can become true patriots.
2.... NATIONAL IDENTITY
   Corneliu Codreanu believed that nations are divine creations and not mere products of history and geography. He also believed that every nation has a mission to fulfill in the world. Only nations that betray their God-given mission disappear from the face of the earth.
3 .... MAN --- A DIVINE CREATION
   Man is a bearer of superior values which transcend his particular existence. As such, being a divine creation, his spiritual values precede all material needs. For the realization of these values, the individual must fight and sacrifice throughout his life.
   Among his principles there exists a hierarchical order. The individual is subordinate to his nation, and, in turn, the nation is subordinate to God and His divine laws.

 

A Word For My Legionaries (by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu)

After fifteen years of struggle, persecution and lives sacrificed, the youth of Romania must know that the time of legionary victory is at hand.

All the enemy's attempts against us will be crushed; all plans to tempt us, all endeavors to buy our souls, all endeavors to divide us, as well as any betrayals among ourselves, all will fall to the ground.

Look them right in the eye - all your tyrants! Endure with resignation all blows, support any torture, for the sacrifice of all of us will be the foundation of iron, of broken bodies, and of tortured souls for victory.

Those from among us who will fall, will have heroes' names and graves! While those who will kill us, will carry the stigma of traitor and will be accused from generation to generation.

From the depths the legionary emerges victorious! With his soul of rock. Those believing they can defeat him as well as those who think they can buy him, will be convinced soon - but too late - that they were mistaken.