Biography
His law thesis, finished in 1932 at the University of Bucharest was entitled: "The Fascism".
Marin Vasile married, after asking for approval from Codreanu, Ana Maria Ropala in February 1933, the daughter of a Romanian army officer and a Jewish woman who converted to Christianity. His wife was a medical doctor (Keene, pgs. 226-227).
In 1936-1937 along with Ion Moța, led a force of Legionnaires into Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Moţa and Marin died (January 13, 1937) during the first day of fighting at Majadahonda on the Madrid front. Their funerals in Bucharest (February 13 1937) were an immense and orderly procession (see Funerals of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin) attended by the ministers of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Francisco Franco's Spain, representatives of Portugal, the Japan of the early Shōwa period, and delegates of the Polish Patriotic Youth.
A memorial monument was erected at Majadahonda, on September 13, 1970, with the support of Franco's government.
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