On the Eastern Front during World War II, a Romanian citizen of Bucharest recognized the body of a deceased relative and conducted an autopsy after an air raid by the German army at the end of August 1944.

      On the Eastern Front of World War II, a Romanian citizen of Bucharest recognized the corpse of a deceased relative and conducted an autopsy after an air raid by the German army at the end of August 1944. From August 23 to 26, 1944, German bombers bombed the capital Bucharest on a daily basis in retaliation for Romania's defection from the Axis powers.

    The end of fascism in Romania came about when armed workers' detachments arrested Ion Antonescu, the Prime Minister, on August 23, 1944. On August 24, the country surrendered to the Allies, and on August 25, the Romanian Democratic Union Government declared war on Germany. Even the coup d'état in Bucharest could no longer change the course of events.

    The Romanian army was unable to put up much resistance against the Soviet army, which attacked the Romanian region in mid-August 1944. The German army lost 22 divisions in the siege battles in Rasi and Kishinev, and the Romanian army units effectively collapsed. The Romanian army, which was subsequently reorganized, supported the Soviet army in the Romanian domestic mopping-up operations and the subsequent attack on Hungary. Bulgarian citizens welcomed the Soviet army's entry into Sofia in early September.

     In May 1946, Ion Antonescu was tried by a people's court for a series of war crimes. He was convicted of capital crimes and executed by a firing squad of Romanian troops on June 1, 1946. As an instigator of the Holocaust, Antonescu was responsible for the deaths of 400,000 people, most of whom were Bessarabians, Ukrainians, Romanian Jews and Romanian Roma.