 On February 22, 1943 an agreement was signed between Theodor Dannecker, the special Nazi envoy sent to facilitate the deportations, and the Bulgarian Commissar for Jewish Affairs, Alexander Belev to deport 20,000 Jews (12,000 from Vardar Macedonia and Thrace and 8,000 from Bulgaria proper).This is the only agreement that a country ever signed with Nazi Germany for deportation of Jews.Bulgaria had to pay all transportation costs and promise never to claim those Jews as citizens.