Nazi German army during World War II, and had taken part in the August 1944 fights on Bucharest's streets that helped remove the German troops from the city. Sevianu had been a police lieutenant after the war until 1951, and had also worked at different times for the aviation department of the Interior Ministry, as a National Tourism Office (ONT) tour guide, and agitprop activist, but at the time of the incident had been unemployed since 1957. In 1959 the Sevianu couple and their two children were surviving on Monica Sevianu's income as private teacher. Monica Sevianu, birth name Monique Alfandary, born in 1923. A journalist, she had worked for the national radio station, but had been fired in 1957, the reason given being her lack of higher academic degrees. After serving part of her life-time sentence, she was released in 1964 through an amnesty decree for political crimes issued by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. She emigrated to Israel in 1970 where she died in 1977. She had already "made aliyah" once to British Mandate Palestine, where she had lived for three years until returning to Romania in 1948 and marrying Igor. Sașa Mușat, birth name Abrașa Glanzstein, born in 1924. Mușat had been a member of the Romanian Communist Party's youth organisation already during its underground years preceding King Michael's Coup of August 1944. A leader of the Social-Democratic youth organisation after WWII, with some considering him to be a Communist agent sent to infiltrate the SD movement. He was a close collaborator of Communist Party leader, Emil Bodnăraș, being also a cousin of his first wife. In 1948 he was sent on an espionage mission to France, but his cover was blown and he was expelled back to Romania. Here he worked as an associate professor and Party secretary at the History Department of the University of Bucharest, positions he was fired from in 1957 or 1958, the reason given being him lacking a PhD degree. Haralambie "Hary" Obedeanu, birth name Hary Lazarovici, born in 1921. Communist Party member and former employee of the Ministry of Interior. Obedeanu had worked until the end of 1958 as a journalist for Scînteia, the Communist Party newspaper, and – until being fired – as the dean of the Journalism Department of the Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy (the Party's political cadres academy). 1960 propaganda film In 1960, the government issued a propaganda film, Reconstituirea ("Reconstruction"),