The Royal Palace in Bucharest, Romania. A postcard altered to show the German flag flying over the palace.
Bucuresti. Palatul Regal, Königliches SchlossBucharest. Royal Palace
"Before retreating, [the Romanians] destroyed the famous oil wells at Ploechti, and the wheat fields as well. In this ill-fated campaign of 100 days the Roumanians lost 200,000 men.Meanwhile, on December 6th, the civilian population had evacuated the capital, Bucharest, wishing to save their chief city from bombardment by Mackensen's heavy howitzers. The garrison had withdrawn to unite with the main army on the Sereth line.Mackensen's campaign had been wonderfully successful. Within four months after the declaration of war he had destroyed the Roumanian Army and conquered the provinces of Dobrudja and Wallachia. Early in January, 1917, the campaign in Roumania was renewed."
Romania entered the war on August 27, 1916 invading Transylvania, Austria-Hungary. German and Austro-Hungarian forces drove the invaders back into Romania, while a combined German, Bulgarian, and Turkish army under German General August von Mackensen pushed the Romanians from southern Dobruja, a coast region between the Danube River and the Black Sea. Mackensen's army crossed the Danube from Bulgaria into Romania within striking distance of the Romanian capital of Bucharest. With the seizure of Dubroja and most of Wallachia, the remnants of the Romanian army were pushed back to Moldavia where the Russians held the Allied line. British Lieutenant Colonel John Norton-Griffiths was responsible for much the destruction of the Romanian resources, sometimes acting over local objections.
King's Complete History of the World War by W.C. King, page 258, copyright © 1922, by W.C. King, publisher: The History Associates, publication date: 1922
1916-12-06, 1916, December, Romania, Bucharest, Mackensen
