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King Michael's Coup was a ''coup d'état'' led by King Michael of Romania during World War II on 23 August 1944. The king removed the government of Ion Antonescu, which had aligned Romania with Nazi Germany, after the Axis front in northeastern Romania collapsed in the face of a successful Soviet offensive. ==Preparations== According to Silviu Brucan, from the Communist Party's side, the two main conspirators were Emil Bodnăraș and Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, who contacted King Michael to prepare a coup d'état against Ion Antonescu.〔Brucan, p.20〕 The first meeting between King Michael's representatives with the Communists was during the night of 13–14 June 1944 in a secret house of the communists, at 103 Calea Moșilor. Apart from the two communist conspirators, participants in the meeting were General , General Constantin Sănătescu, Colonel Dumitru Dămăceanu, while King Michael was represented by Baron (marshal of the palace), Mircea Ionnițiu (private secretary) and Grigore Niculescu-Buzești (diplomatic adviser).〔 The King's representatives presented the Gigurtu plan, through which the King would meet Baron Manfred von Killinger, the German ambassador in Bucharest, to discuss the replacement of Ion Antonescu with a cabinet led by Ion Gigurtu. The Communist Party thought that this plan was "naïve and dangerous", as it would have alerted the Gestapo and that it would have sharpened Germany's espionage.〔Brucan, p.20-21〕 The Communist Party presented an alternative plan, through which King Michael, who was the commander-in-chief, would order the weapons to be turned against Nazi Germany and Ion Antonescu would be summoned to the palace, ordered to sign an armistice with the Allies, and if he refused, he would be arrested on the spot.〔Brucan, p.21〕 After this, a coalition government of the National Democratic Bloc (the National Peasant Party, the National Liberal Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Romanian Communist Party) would take power.〔 This proposal was accepted by both the military representatives and by the King's advisers, who then convinced King Michael that it was the best solution.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「King Michael's Coup」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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