Archive/File: people/e/eichmann.adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Sessi
on-006-007-008-08 Last-Modified: 1999/05/28 The Extermination of
Hungarian Jewry Finally, in 1944, Hungary was the only country
within the sphere of influence of the Reich left with a
considerable Jewish population. After the annexation of Southern
Slovakia, Northern Transylvania and Carpatho-Russia, there were
about eight hundred-thousand Jews living in Hungary. Since 1942,
when a representative of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
had demanded of the Hungarian Ambassador to fulfil the Fuehrer's
wish and take part in the "solution of the Jewish problem,"
there had been constant Nazi pressure on the Hungarian
government to fall in line on the Jewish question. As usual, the
promise was made that Jewish property would be turned over to
Hungary. The objectives outlined by the Foreign Ministry to its
representative in Budapest were to demand that the Hungarians
remove the Jews from all influence in cultural and economic
life, introduce the Jewis