German, Swiss, and Romanian Documents on the Plan to Deport the Jews from Southern Transylvania in 1942.

While being interrogated in 1945 in Moscow, Gustav richter, eichmann's representative in Bucharest, claimed that Mihai antonescu had agreed, in July 1942, to the plan of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt to begin with the deportation of the Jews from southern tran - sylvania. the plan was made public in a press conference and published on 8 august 1942 in the newspaper Bukarester Tageblatt (Bucharest Daily). in spite of the German envoy Manfred von Killinger's declaration of 15 september that preparations for the deportation had been finalized, no romanian representative took part in the conference in Berlin from 26 to 28 september, in which the schedule for the transportation trains was drawn up. as the reason for their absence, the Bukarester Tageblatt of 11 October specifically referred to Franz Baron von neumann's and Wilhelm Filderman's interventions. On 12 December, Von Killinger stated in resignation that one could no longer assume that the deportations would take place. this article discusses the extent to which the reports of the German envoy, Killinger, and the swiss envoy, rené de Weck, can explain why the deportation plan failed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]