Baloney. He was installed as “king” in 1940 at age 18 in a Pro-nazi coup. He stayed home and got a chest full of medals as hundreds of thousands of Romanian soldiers died on the eastern front fighting for Hitler. He wasnt the real power, but he lived the royal life and gave the nazis his royal fig leaf of legitimacy rather than doing anything risky to refuse them his stamp of legitimacy. He was just as happy to do the same post war for the soviets but of course they weren’t interested in monarchy and didn’t need him.
Then after the Normandy invasion had succeeded and was pushing deep into France and the Russians were closing on on Romania, he switched to the Allied side.
Just another azzwipe royal collaborator. Good riddance to royalty trash. At best, he was a grifter and lived the royal life to whatever group of thugs would respect his “position”. Fwiw... the Brit royals and aristocracy would have done nothing different had Germany taken them over. If they got to keep their status...they would play ball.
European royalty is a blight on humanity.
Beg to differ. George was staunchly behind Winston. Had the Nazis invaded the Royal Family and the Government probably would have moved to Canada to continue the fight.
Now, his brother, the Duke of Windsor, was a different matter entirely. That's one reason he was packed off to the Bahamas for the duration.
Of course, all this is academic since after the Battle of Britain there was virtually no chance the Nazis could invade.
“as hundreds of thousands of Romanian soldiers died on the eastern front fighting for Hitler”
Romania’s primary motivation to fight the USSR was the same as Finland’s: To recover territories seized by the Soviets in 1940 (in the case of Romania, it was Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina). The Western Allies left Eastern European countries little choice, leaving them to fend for themselves: They could either face Bolshevik revolutions that would destroy their cultures and institutions (political and religious), or embrace fascism to suppress the Bolsheviks. It is easy to understand, after 8 years of Obama, why people would opt for the latter; we have a bakery in front of our Supreme Court for refusing to bake a cake for two deviant mental cases - and that Supreme Court gave those deviants the right to pretend they were married (with all that entails).