Military Museum in Păuliș, Romania

Military Museum in Păuliș, Romania

Hello dear travelers

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the opening of a new museum, a military museum dedicated in particular to the battles that took place here during the Second World War.

And yes, 80 years ago here, not far from where I live, some of the bloodiest battles of the Roman army took place.

History lesson

The Battle of Pauliș has gone down in history as one of the fiercest battles of the Second World War fought by Romanian troops after the turn of the guns against Hitler's Germany and its allies.

A handful of 18-20 year-old students from the Radna Military NCO School managed to hold off the much better equipped and more experienced Hungarian and German troops, who outnumbered them eight to one.

After the "moment of August 23, 1944", when the Romanian Army turned its arms, the attempts of the Hortyste armies to hold Transylvania were thwarted by the Romanian military's indomitable resistance.The Hortyste offensive on the western border began on September 5, 1944, and Arad fell to the invaders on September 11.

The Hungarian "Budapest" Division continued its advance on the Muresului Valley, with a strength of 20,000 soldiers, its advance being stopped in the Paulis area by a Romanian detachment consisting of three battalions of students from the Reserve NCO School in Radna, a battalion from the 9th Infantry Regiment and the 61st Heavy Artillery Division, totaling a little over 1,800 soldiers.

The Romanian soldiers resisted heroically for seven days against an enemy far superior both in numbers and fighting technique, until the arrival in the area of large Romanian units that forced the enemy to retreat.

It seemed very important to me to know the history and past of these places and now after 80 years to have the opportunity to see objects or even a military outfit used in battle.

I have to admit that I was overcome with emotions knowing that I was walking among these objects with such a strong emotional charge.

Let's take a few steps inside.

In the picture below you can see only a small part of the soldiers who were killed in those battles.

In the picture below we can see Captain Ioan Fatu with his wife, unfortunately he was also killed on the battlefield.

Below we can see a soldier's helmet, unfortunately, as you can see, it was pierced by a fatal bullet.

Some of the objects on display here were specially brought from the archives of the National Military Museum in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.

Visiting this museum is free of charge and can be done in advance after an appointment in order to organize a group, being a new museum is not yet known, so tourists will only now before they will find out about it and will visit it, and I can say that I was among the first tourists of the museum.

A nation that does not know its history is a lost nation, in my opinion, and I wish that such moments will remain only in painful history and will never be repeated.

THE END!

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