My Encounter with Codreanu

by Julius Evola

Julius Evola recounts his memorable meeting with Corneliu Codreanu.

Among the various leaders of the movements for national reconstruction that emerged during the interwar period, which I had the opportunity to meet, I remember Corneliu Codreanu, the leader of the Romanian Iron Guard, as one of the purest, most righteous, and noblest figures. It was in the spring of 1936 that I met him in Bucharest during a study trip I had undertaken to various European countries at the time.