Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: He rangatira mahi a te ope taua o Romania i whai ingoa i te wa o te
1907 peasant's revolt and the World War I Romanian Campaign, the anti-Semitic Antonescu sympathized with the far-right and fascist National Christian and Iron Guard groups for much of the interwar period. I te nuinga o te wa o te pakanga o te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao me te pakanga o te Pakanga Romanian o te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao, i arohaina e te Antonescu ki nga roopu tino tika me te fascist National Christian me Iron Guard mo te nuinga o te wa o te pakanga. He kaiwhiwhi hoia ia ki Parani, a, i muri mai ko ia te Tumuaki o te Kaimahi Nui, i mahi poto hei Minita mo te Tiaki i te kaunihera National Christian o Octavian Goga me te kaunihera o te First Cristea i muri mai, i mahi ai ia hei Minita mo te Rererangi me te Moana. I te mutunga o nga tau 1930, ko tana tuuturu torangapu i raru ai ia ki a Kingi Carol II ka mau ki a ia. Heoi, i piki ake a Antonescu ki te rongonui o te ao i te wa o te raru o te ao o te tau 1940, a ka whakapumautia e ia te National Legionary State, he hononga uaua me te kaiarahi o te Iron Guard a Horia Sima. Whai muri i te urunga atu o Romania ki te hononga ki te Tiamana Nazi me te whakarite i te whakawhirinaki a Adolf Hitler, i whakakorea e ia te Kaitiaki i te wa o te Legionary Rebellion o 1941. I tua atu i te Pirimia, i mahi ia hei Minita mo nga Tauiwi me te Minita o te Rohe. I muri tata mai i te uru mai o Romania ki te Axis i roto i te Operation Barbarossa, i te whakahoki mai i a Bessarabia me Northern Bukovina, ka noho ano a Antonescu hei Marshal o Romania.