![Horia Sima, leader of the Iron Guard and deputy prime minister of the Romanian government in 1940. [LCID: 18297]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0877b7e9-b669-4e6d-bed1-ae76fd8c3433.jpg)
Horia Sima, leader of the Iron Guard and deputy prime minister of the Romanian government in 1940. Bucharest, Romania, 1940.
In this image, Horia Sima salutes his supporters during a ceremony commemorating the deaths of Ion Mota and Vasile Marin, Iron Guardsmen who were killed in the Spanish Civil War.
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