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Telegram

(station G)

Budapest, July 11, 1944Time: 22:25

Received: July 12, 1944Time: 11:00

1916y

No. 1939 of July 11 Secret!

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs indicated today the difficult position of the Hungarian government because of the different treatment of the Jewish problem at corresponding German positions in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. While in this country [Hungary] we demand from the government the strictest procedures against the Jews, the Romanians and the Slovaks are allowed to treat the Jews there in a much more tolerant way. From Romania are currently sailing even regular transports of Jews bound for Palestine. According to the reports of the Hungarian embassies in Bucharest and Pressburg in the last few weeks numerous Hungarian Jews crossed the border passed illegally into Romania and into Slovakia, where they were more or less openly tolerated by the local authorities. The Romanians even went so far as to add to their transports of Jews bound for Palestine 20 % Hungarian Jews recently. Apparently that happens in order to create a good impression before our enemies. Hence the appearance is created for the outside world that the Romanians and the Slovaks have adopted a totally different approach in the Jewish problem than the Hungarians, so that the entire hatred of the inimical powers and of the neutral states also is directed against the latter. That fact has a very unfavorable influence upon the stand taken by the Hungarian government.

Veesenmeyer

K213496E421......

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