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Transnistria, during World War II, was an occupied region of USSR that included present-day Transnistria and some territories further east (region of Odessa), briefly under control of Romania during the maximum eastward expansion of the Axis Powers 1941-1944.

In World War II, when Romania, aided by Nazi Germany, for the first time in history took control of Transnistria, there was never any attempt to formally annex the occupied territory beyond the Dniester (Romanian: Nistru) River: it was generally considered merely a temporary buffer zone between Greater Romania and the Soviet front line. Transnistria had never been considered part of Bessarabia. Two preeminent political figures of the day, Iuliu Maniu and Constantin Brătianu declared that "the Romanian people will never consent to the continuation of the struggle beyond our national borders."

Even at the height of Romanian nationalism, the Dniester/Nistru was considered the eastern boundary of the Romanian lands. The national poet Mihai Eminescu, in his famous poem Doina, spoke of a Romania stretching only "from the Nistru to the Tisa" and not farther east.

Romanian occupation of Transnistria 1941-1944

In October - November 1941 Romanian troops in Odessa killed about 30,000 Jews. Many Jews were deported in Transnistria from Bessarabia and Bukovina. 200,000 Roma people and Jews were victims of Romanian occupation of Transnistria 1941-1944 .

References

• Rumania in World War II, 1939-1945, World History at KMLA. Accessed 8 Jan 2006.

• Altman I., Holocaust on occupied territory of USSR, Chapter 3

• History of Moldova
• History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia
• Romania during World War II