Stoenescu's historical work has been considered controversial, especially his works about the rule of
Ion Antonescu and the 1989 revolution. In his work
The Army, the Marshall and the Jews, which deals with the Antonescu era, he claims that the
Iași pogrom occurred because Antonescu "practically ceded" the city's Romanian sovereignty to the Germans, who were thus responsible for the mass killings. This attitude is considered by Romanian Holocaust scholar Michael Shafir as being "deflective negationism", a form of
Holocaust denial in which the guilt is deflected toward other groups, such as the Germans. The book also claims that the deaths of thousands of Jews in the "
Death Trains" in Romania can be attributed to negligence, not intent. He also accepted without question the era's propaganda that those deported were "communists" who attacked the Romanian and German troops, while concluding that it was not the first time in history when thousands of innocents paid for the deeds of "a handful of [Jewish communist] culprits". Shafir described Stoenescu as a "notorious antisemite". Stoenescu's multi-volume work ''History of coup d'etats in Romania'' also received harsh criticism because of its depiction of Romanian far-right groups. For instance, he claims that the
Iron Guard was not antisemitic in its early days. Stoenescu states that
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu was originally just anti-communist; his antisemitism was simply a reaction to the Jews' preference for left-wing politics and the threat of Bolshevism they brought about. The same book also claims that the "Death Squads" of the Legionnaire movement were not really groups of assassins, but just "legionnaires willing to risk their life", who did not intend "to bring death on others." Stoenescu claims that their image has been distorted by Communist propaganda. ==Bibliography==