Posted 6 years ago
huddyhuddy
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Rare WWII Romanian service passport - army officer sent to Berlin. War time official passports are among my favorite and those issued for serving in Axis countries and Europe are rather special important samples for ones collection. The one here is also mysterious: though indicating he took a plane out of Bucharest on May 16th 1944, there is not arrival indication at all inside! where did he vanish too? a mystery!
Do you have his year of birth?
If it's not a name coincidence, Popescu is a very common name in Romania...he most likely ended as war criminal, arrested in 1945.
There is also a Nicolae I.B. Popescu, member of the Central College of the Communist Party, with an early date, probably his birth date as 1911.
And, I tend to believe he is the second I mentioned, he was recruited in 1945, accepted in the Communist Party in a secret meeting on 25 September 1945 at the recommendation of Emil Bodnaras (very important member of the said party) and became the director of the Secret Police for couple years. He graduated Military School in 1942, with "very good", part of the Information and Counter-information Department of Military Headquarters.
He was essential in destroying and repressing the old interwar Romanian elite between 1945-1948.