- Vasile Marin
Vasile Marin (
Bucharest , January 29 1904 -Majadahonda , January 13 1937) was a politician, public servant and lawyer. Member of theNational Peasants' Party until 1932, Vasile Marin become a prominent member of theIron Guard .Biography
His law thesis, finished in 1932 at the
University of Bucharest was entitled: "TheFascism ". In 1936-1937 along withIon Moţa , led a force ofLegionnaires intoSpain during theSpanish Civil War . Moţa and Marin's forces died (January 13 1937) during the first day of fighting atMajadahonda on theMadrid front. Their funerals inBucharest (February 13 1937) were an immense and orderly processionFact|date=July 2007 attended by the Ministers ofNazi Germany , FascistItaly , andFrancisco Franco 'sSpain , representatives of Portugal, theJapan of the earlyShōwa period , and delegates of thePolish Patriotic Youth .An monument was erected at
Majadahonda , on September 13 1970, with support ofFranco 's government.References
*"
The Green Shirts and the Others : A History of Fascism in Hungary and Rumania" byNicholas M. Nagy-Talavera (Hoover Institution Press , 1970).
*"Romania" byEugen Weber , in "The European Right : A Historical Profile" edited byHans Rogger and Eugen Weber (University of California Press, 1965)
* "The Romanian Legionary's Mission in Spain" (Part III, A., xi Romania, 116.) in "Fascism" (Oxford Readers) edited byRoger Griffin (Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0192892495).
*"Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 " byPhilip Rees (Simon & Schuster , 1991, ISBN 0130893013).External links
* [http://hist.academic.claremontmckenna.edu/jpetropoulos/ironguard/leaders.htm Leadership of the Iron Guard] and [http://hist.academic.claremontmckenna.edu/jpetropoulos/ironguard/culture.htm Culture and Cultural Policy] at
Claremont McKenna College .
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