. . . . . . . "1941"^^ . . . . "1968-02-01"^^ . . . . . . "1894-05-13"^^ . . "Podporuchik"@en . . . "Gherman P\u00E2ntea signature.JPG"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Moldavian Order of St. Vladimir"@en . . . . . . "Gherman V. P\u00E2ntea"@en . . . . . . . "Gherman V. P\u00E2ntea (; surname also spelled P\u00EEntea; , German Vasilievich Pyntya; , Herman Vasilyovich Pyntya or Pintia; May 13, 1894 \u2013 February 1, 1968) was a Bessarabian-born soldier, civil servant and political figure, active in the Russian Empire and Romania. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army during most of World War I, he helped organize the committees of Bessarabian soldiers, oscillating between loyalty to the Russian Provisional Government and the cause of Bessarabian emancipation. P\u00E2ntea was subsequently Military Director of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, answering to President Ion Incule\u0163. He personally created a Bessarabian defense force, tasked with combating Bolshevik subversion and Russian intimidation, but also braced for defeat after the October Revolution."@en . "Gherman P\u00E2ntea"@en . "Bucharest"@en . "Gherman V. P\u00E2ntea (; surname also spelled P\u00EEntea; , German Vasilievich Pyntya; , Herman Vasilyovich Pyntya or Pintia; May 13, 1894 \u2013 February 1, 1968) was a Bessarabian-born soldier, civil servant and political figure, active in the Russian Empire and Romania. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army during most of World War I, he helped organize the committees of Bessarabian soldiers, oscillating between loyalty to the Russian Provisional Government and the cause of Bessarabian emancipation. P\u00E2ntea was subsequently Military Director of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, answering to President Ion Incule\u0163. He personally created a Bessarabian defense force, tasked with combating Bolshevik subversion and Russian intimidation, but also braced for defeat after the October Revolution. With some hesitance, Gherman P\u00E2ntea endorsed the Republic's union with Romania, and affiliated with Romania's National Liberal Party. Having parallel careers as teacher, lawyer and journalist, P\u00E2ntea remained a presence in Romanian political life, as member of Parliament, negotiator of d\u00E9tente with the Soviet Union, and three times Mayor of Chi\u015Fin\u0103u. He was however mistrusted for his defense of arrested Bolsheviks, his critique of centralized government, and his alleged corruption. During World War II, P\u00E2ntea was Mayor of Odessa under a Romanian occupation. He intervened to save Jews from the 1941 Massacre and the subsequent deportations to camps in Transnistria. He had a tumultuous relationship with Ion Antonescu, the Romanian dictator, and was kept in check by the occupation authority. His administration managed to set in motion a plan for Odessa, and helped the city overcome devastation through the adoption of free trade, but also created various controversies. P\u00E2ntea was long suspected of war crimes, and spent much of his post-war life as a fugitive. He was eventually apprehended, and became a political prisoner of the . In 1956, he managed to have the war crimes verdict overturned but, albeit rehabilitated in part, continued to be harassed by the communist apparatus until the 1960s."@en . . "1917"^^ . . . . . . "1915"^^ . . . . . . . . .