ABSTRACT
The Legion Archangel Michael in Romania emerged in late the 1920s and the 1930s as one of the strongest and most original fascist movements in interwar Europe. Following the victory of the Entente, Romania then managed to fulfill its maximum national desiderata, doubling its size and population. In line with the Minority Convention signed by Romania as part of the Treaty of St. Germain with Austria, the two major mass parties of Romania, the National-Liberal Party and the National Peasant Party, opposed the adoption of overtly discriminatory policies against ethnic minorities. Under their influence, the Legion's ideology was enriched with new transnational ideological arguments for the establishment of a fascist totalitarian-corporatist state in Romania, in close alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
