Legiunea Arhanghelului Mihail

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Founded in 1927

The Garda de Fier was a fascist and anti-Semitic movement in Romania, whose members were known as ‘Legionnaires’. Originally established in 1927 under the name ‘legion of the Archangel Michael’ and organized into paramilitary units, the Garda de Fier soon became a mass political movement. It was officially dissolved in 1933, but continued to function, even receiving the third largest number of votes in Romania’s 1937 election. During the mid-1930s the Garda de Fier also established ties with the Nazi regime in Germany. In 1938, Romania’s King Carol II again outlawed the Garda de Fier. Nonet...

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Founded in 1934

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu transformed the pro-Nazi Legiunea Arhanghelului Mihail into a viable political party that garnered almost 16 percent of the popular vote in 1937 elections as part of the rightist coalition with Totul Pentru Tara. Carol II responded to this rightist threat by outlawing the Garda de Fier and executing Codreanu and other leaders of Garda de Fier.