1. Late in his life, Petre Pandrea, a Romanian intellectual who was for long a member of the Communist Party and later became a victim of the Communist regime, wrote a memoir which, in part, dealt with Nicolae Malaxa's biography, recording it with a dose of hostility.
In time, Pandrea claimed, tensions grew between the two Malaxas, after the "Puritan" Nicolae came to resent his "frivolous" wife.
Nicolae Malaxa joined the Romanian Railways Company as a constructions engineer.
Pandrea implied that this went against procedure, and was the result of Nicolae Malaxa having befriended Chairman Alexandru Cottescu.
In several of his locomotive designs, Nicolae Malaxa used innovative solutions.
Nicolae Malaxa claimed that Elena Lupescu was cheating on the king with his secretary Ernest Urdareanu, who was an important figure of the camarilla and who kept close contacts with the Malaxas.
Unlike most other large industries in the country, Nicolae Malaxa's was not tied to British, French or Czechoslovak interests.
At a time when Nazi Germany was gaining more influence in Romania, Nicolae Malaxa collaborated with Hermann Goring in confiscating the assets of the Jewish Auschnitt, and subsequently placed his industrial empire in the service of the Reichswerke during World War II.
Just after Carol fell from power in 1940, Nicolae Malaxa was briefly imprisoned on charges that he had resorted to extortion in previous years.
At the time, independent Premier Nicolae Malaxa Radescu had come into conflict with the rising Romanian Communist Party, and his frequent speeches to his supporters were disrupted by organized workers.
Nicolae Malaxa used his opportunity to flee after being sent on an economic mission by King Michael, and settled in New York City, where his family joined him after being expelled by the Groza government.