11 January — Germany concludes a secret agreement to pay Romania thirty tons of gold and 43,000,000 Swiss francs in return for use of Romanian territory for German bases.[3]
1 July — Foreign MinisterMihai Antonescu meets the Italian dictatorBenito Mussolini in Rome and pleads with him to lead a bid by the countries aligned with Germany to leave the Axis. Mussolini refuses to commit to the plan.[4]
2 October — TheTudor Vladimirescu Division is created by the Soviet Union from Romanian prisoners of war who were given the choice of "volunteering" to fight against Nazi Germany, or to remain incarcerated.[6]
20 December – Repatriation ofJews that survivedthe Holocaust inTransnistria begins. By 30 March 1944, nearly 11,000 people, including orphans, had been repatriated.[8]
c.8 August –Haig Acterian, film and theater director, critic, dramatist, poet, journalist, and fascist political activist, killed in action in World War II (born1904).
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