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Spy Artist Prisoner : My Life in Romania under Fascist and Communist Rule, Paperback / softback Book

Spy Artist Prisoner : My Life in Romania under Fascist and Communist Rule Paperback / softback

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Romania allied itself with the Nazis in the Second World War to protect itself from the Soviet Union and to promote its own brand of fascist nationalism.

When George Tomaziu, who had spent the 1930s preparing for a career as an artist, was invited to spy for Britain, he agreed because Britain then represented the only possible bulwark against Nazism.

He went on to monitor German troop movements through Romania towards the Russian front, observing, on one occasion, the mass-killing of Jews in the small Ukrainian town of Brailov.

He knew he might be arrested, tortured and killed by Romania’s rightwing regime but thought that if he survived, his contribution to the war effort would be recognised.

It wasn’t. After Romania turned Communist, he was sent back to prison in 1950 and kept him there for 13 years.

Following his release, the British helped him get out of Romania and he settled in Paris.

This is his memoir.

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