Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

As the lo cal Chief of Po lice at tempted to in ter vene, Lance-Ser -geant Manoliu Mircea turned to a pass ing Ger man corps and saidthat the lo cal Jews had ra dio trans mis sion equip ment but he hadbeen un able to find it be cause the po lice were pro tect ing theJews. The leader of the Ger man corps of fered to col lab o rate withthe po lice dur ing the rest of the house-searches. They were alsojoined by Ro ma nian sol diers from the 13th In fan try Reg i ment andthe 22nd Ar til lery Reg i ment. All of them con tin ued to abuse theJews.When the com mander of the gar ri son, Col o nel Lupu , was in -formed of what was hap pen ing, Col o nel Captaru , county head,the Mil i tary Judge of the Di vi sion along with the com mand ers ofthe afore men tioned troops as well as rep re sen ta tives of the Cen -tral Po lice Sta tion went to the scene and ar rested the re bel liousLance-Ser geant and those (among the Romanians) who had ac -tively taken part in the of fences; they were handed over to themil i tary judge of the di vi sion for in ves ti ga tion.This ac tion fully re-es tab lished peace in the dis trict. On the sameday at 22.00 hrs. the po lice force was in formed that mil i tary unitsof vi tal im por tance were be ing shot at.All lo cal mil i tary bod ies were in formed im me di ately, first of allGen eral Stavrescu , Com mander of the Di vi sion. The Com manderof the Gar ri son and the Mil i tary Judge went to the Cen tral Po liceSta tion to study the sit u a tion and re port to the Com mander of theDi vi sion.Pa trols, con sist ing of Gen darme mem bers and po lice men, whichwere sent out dur ing the day time, were im me di ately strength -ened.The con clu sion: in ci dents of shoot ing were be com ing more wide -spread in sev eral dis tricts of town, and in ar eas where Ger man orRo ma nian sol diers were march ing.Con se quently, a group of sol diers march ing down Las carCatargiu Street came un der fire, as did an other group march ingthrough Carol Street. Even though the shoot ing was very heavy,no body was in jured. All night long the army, the po lice and theGer mans searched the places from which shots were fired. NoJews were ar rested for shoot ing. The Gen darme in spec tor senttwo Chris tians to the In spec tor ate. One of them, a cer tainLupsanschi, claimed to be an Iron Guard. They found his will on125