1. Petre Dumitrescu began his military training at the Artillery and Engineers Officers' School in 1901, graduating in 1903 with the rank of second lieutenant.
10 Facts About Petre Dumitrescu
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Petre Dumitrescu was promoted to lieutenant in 1906 and, five years later, to captain.
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Between 1937 and the beginning of World War II, Dumitrescu served as a military attache in both Paris and Brussels.
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On March 25,1941, Petre Dumitrescu was made commander of the Third Army, a post which he would hold for the duration of the war.
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Petre Dumitrescu then crossed the Prut to recover northern Bessarabia.
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At that point his army and the German 11th army switched places, with Italians continuing advancement over the Dniester towards the Southern Bug river, and Petre Dumitrescu remaining on recovered Romanian territory.
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Between 26 March and 24 August 1944, he commanded "Army Group Petre Dumitrescu" which was composed of the German 6th Army, under command of Maximilian de Angelis and later Maximilian Fretter-Pico, and his own Romanian 3rd Army.
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Petre Dumitrescu retired in early September, 1944, as the Romanian Army and the Red Army retook Northern Transylvania and advanced into Hungary.
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In 1946, Petre Dumitrescu was put under house arrest and put on trial for war crimes by the new communist government, but was eventually acquitted because of a lack of evidence.
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Petre Dumitrescu died of natural causes at his Bucharest home in 1950.