 Over the course of 1942, they enacted increasingly harsh measures against the Jews under their control in Vardar Macedonia, as well as in occupied northern Greece, culminating in 1943 with the deportation, upon orders from Germany, of Vardar Macedonian and Greek Jewry to the Bulgarian border on the river Danube.From there they were transported with German boats and trains to the German death camp Treblinka in occupied Poland.Nazi Germany even requested that Bulgaria finance the deportations.