King Carol II of Romania had tried to steer his country toward neutrality, but he was deposed in November 1940. The dictatorship of Ion Antonescu quickly entered into an alliance with Hitler. The Romanians would mimic German anti-Semitic policies at home, and later their Army would join Germany in the invasion of the Soviet Union. But Antonescu's alliance with an even more right-wing group, the Iron Guard, soon began to fall apart.
