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
"Ludendorff eliminated the option of extending the offensive when he informed Mackensen on 24 August [1917] that the Alpine Corps and the Austrian 13th ID would be transferred to Italy at the beginning of September. . . . The decision handed down from OHL caused much frustration among Austro-German commanders on the Romanian Front, beginning with Mackensen. He realized now that he would not be able to add the conquest of Moldavia to his many laurels. He left the front and returned to Bucharest on 23 August. A few days later he recorded his disappointment: ' Under tactically favorable conditions, a very promising operation could have been made which would have had significant political consequences. It is very regrettable that they make me dependent on events on other battlefields.'"
The German Mărăşeşti offensive began on August 6, 1917 in hopes of destroying Romania's army and seizing Moldavia, the only part of the country not occupied by Central Power forces. The German-Austro-Hungarian Oituz offensive began two days later. German General August von Mackensen had commanded a Central Power army in the initial invasion of Romania in 1916. With Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, General, Erich Ludendorff commanded the German army. Bucharest was and remains the capital of Romania. OHL, Oberste Heeresleitung, was German Supreme Army Command.
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I by Glenn E. Torrey, pp. 231–232, copyright © 2011 by the University Press of Kansas, publisher: University Press of Kansas, publication date: 2011
1917-08-24, 1917, August, Romania, Mackensen, Bucharest, occupied Bucharest
