 A young and capable lawyer, Iosif Schraer, ensured that Georgescu was released after only two months in prison and a few beatings.Further arrests followed; finally, after being detained in April 1941, the next month he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Caransebeş.Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej named him leader of the prison's communist group before being transferred to Târgu Jiu prison in 1943.