11 January — Germany concludes a secret agreement to pay Romania thirty tons of gold and 43,000,000 Swiss francs in return for use of Romanian territory for German bases.[3]
1 July — Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu meets the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in Rome and pleads with him to lead a bid by the countries aligned with Germany to leave the Axis. Mussolini refuses to commit to the plan.[4]
2 October — The Tudor Vladimirescu Division is created by the Soviet Union from Romanian prisoners of war who were given the choice of "volunteering" to fight against Nazi Germany, or to remain incarcerated.[6]
20 December – Repatriation of Jews that survived the Holocaust in Transnistria begins. By 30 March 1944, nearly 11,000 people, including orphans, had been repatriated.[8]
c.8 August – Haig Acterian, film and theater director, critic, dramatist, poet, journalist, and fascist political activist, killed in action in World War II (born 1904).
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