 Having survived the violent clash between the Iron Guard and their nominal partner, "Conducător" Ion Antonescu (events known as the Legionary Rebellion), he left Romania after Antonescu's regime and Romania's alliance to the Axis Powers crumbled in autumn 1944 ("see Soviet occupation of Romania").He joined Sima's Vienna-based Legionary cabinet, holding a nominal office as Minister of Education.The justice system in Communist Romania tried him "in absentia", and sentenced him to death.