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==History==

==History==

In [[World War II]], [[Romania]], persuaded and aided by [[Nazi Germany]], took control of Transnistria for the first time in history. In August 1941, [[Adolf Hitler]] persuaded [[Ion Antonescu]] to take control of the territory.  Despite the Romanian occupation, Romania did not formally incorporate Transnistria into its administrative framework.  Nazi Germany wanted Romania as an ally in the war against the Soviet Union for fear that the Soviets were a threat to the Romanian oilfields.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ellman |first1=James |title=Hitler's Great Gamble - A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II |date=2019 |publisher=Stackpole Books |location=United States |isbn=9780811768481 |page=64}}</ref> Romania in turn aligned their foreign policy in the [[Anti-Comintern pact]] with Germany against the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deletant |first1=Dennis |title=Hitler's Forgotten Ally - Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940-1944 |date=2006 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-349-54401-1 |page=14}}</ref> In [[Operation Barbarossa]], Antonescu aligned with Hitler's ideas that the conflict was a "race war" between the Aryans, represented by the Nordic Germans and Latin Romanians on the Axis side vs. the [[Slav]]s and Asians, commanded by the Jews on the Soviet side.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ancel |first1=Jean |title=The History of the Holocaust in Romania |date=2011 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |isbn=978-973-681-799-1}}</ref> Romania committed two armies for the invasion of the Soviet Union, totaling over 300,000 troops between them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stahel |first1=David |title=Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East |date=2009 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780521768474 |page=357}}</ref> For their commitment, Romania was promised Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the area between Dniester and Southern Bug.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Veidlinger |first1=Jeffrey |title=In the Shadow of the Shtetl - Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine |date=2013 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington |isbn=9780253011527 |page=187}}</ref> Romania hoped to annex Transnistria eventually, but the defeat of German and Romania armies at [[Stalingrad]] precluded it.<ref name="Traşcă2008">{{in lang|ro}} Ottmar Traşcă, ''[http://www.history-cluj.ro/Istorie/anuare/AnuarBaritHistorica2008/20%20OttmarTrasca.pdf Ocuparea orașului Odessa...]'', "George Bariţiu" Institute of History's Annual, ''Series HISTORICA'', 2008.</ref>

In [[World War II]], [[Romania]], persuaded and aided by [[Nazi Germany]], took control of Transnistria for the first time in history. In August 1941, [[Adolf Hitler]] persuaded [[Ion Antonescu]] to take control of the territory.  Despite the Romanian occupation, Romania did not formally incorporate Transnistria into its administrative framework.  Nazi Germany wanted Romania as an ally in the war against the Soviet Union for fear that the Soviets were a threat to the Romanian oilfields.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ellman |first1=James |title=Hitler's Great Gamble - A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II |date=2019 |publisher=Stackpole Books |location=United States |isbn=9780811768481 |page=64}}</ref> Romania in turn aligned their foreign policy in the [[Anti-Comintern Pact]] with Germany against the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deletant |first1=Dennis |title=Hitler's Forgotten Ally - Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940-1944 |date=2006 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-349-54401-1 |page=14}}</ref> In [[Operation Barbarossa]], Antonescu aligned with Hitler's ideas that the conflict was a "race war" between the Aryans, represented by the Nordic Germans and Latin Romanians on the Axis side vs. the [[Slav]]s and Asians, commanded by the Jews on the Soviet side.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ancel |first1=Jean |title=The History of the Holocaust in Romania |date=2011 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |isbn=978-973-681-799-1}}</ref> Romania committed two armies for the invasion of the Soviet Union, totaling over 300,000 troops between them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stahel |first1=David |title=Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East |date=2009 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780521768474 |page=357}}</ref> For their commitment, Romania was promised Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the area between Dniester and Southern Bug.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Veidlinger |first1=Jeffrey |title=In the Shadow of the Shtetl - Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine |date=2013 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington |isbn=9780253011527 |page=187}}</ref> Romania hoped to annex Transnistria eventually, but the defeat of German and Romania armies at [[Stalingrad]] precluded it.<ref name="Traşcă2008">{{in lang|ro}} Ottmar Traşcă, ''[http://www.history-cluj.ro/Istorie/anuare/AnuarBaritHistorica2008/20%20OttmarTrasca.pdf Ocuparea orașului Odessa...]'', "George Bariţiu" Institute of History's Annual, ''Series HISTORICA'', 2008.</ref>

==Western aggression==

==Western aggression==