The Ribbentrop-Ciano Diktat. Transylvania and the Romanian-Hungarian Relations (1940-1944)

Editorial project published under the aegis of  ?George Baritiu? Institute of History, The Romanian Academy and Transylvania Leaders Foundation. Translated from the Romanian by Doina-Elisabeta Mihalcea However, since 1943, the Chancelleries of Moscow, London, Washington have been more and more concerned with Transylvania. In most cases, the interest of the Great Powers has been to maneuver Central European states on the basis of territorial aspirations, sometimes hidden under the slogan of "minority rights". Transylvania continued to be seen as a territory of compensation! In fact, the case of German-Italian "arbitration" and "mediation" in the Transylvanian issue (1940-1444) had less to do with the real rights of any minority (except perhaps of the German minority), because the population of Transylvania has experienced all the sufferings, from the nightmare of mass murders (Romanians in Northern Transylvania), to refugees, expulsions, loss of property and unimaginable frustratio