sentences:  A month before the deportations began, Eichmann offered through an intermediary, Joel Brand, to exchange one million Jews for 10,000 trucks from the Allies, which the Germans would undertake not to use on the Western front.The British leaked the proposal to the press; "The Times" called it "a new level of fantasy and self-deception".By mid-1944 Jewish communities within easy reach of the Nazi regime had largely been exterminated.