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A Notorious Romanian Fascist Rises Again in the US

One of the organizers of the recent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was seen wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of Corneliu Codreanu, a Romanian fascist from the 1930s. Radu Ioanid of the US Holocaust Museum knows all about him.

(Image: Romanian politician Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899 - 1938, third from left), wearing Romanian peasant dress, as he inspects members of the Iron Guard, the fascist movement of which he is founder and leader, Romania, circa 1934. Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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