ABSTRACT
As Rezso Kasztner was returning from Kolozsvár, Heinrich Himmler was addressing the commanders of the Wehrmacht. In a speech delivered in Sonthofen in Germany on May 5, 1944, the Reichsführer-SS boasted that the "Jewish question" had been resolved in "an uncompromising fashion" throughout Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. The rescue committee's foreign communications told a very different story about Nazi policies. With Kasztner back in Budapest, more misleading messages were sent to the Zionists abroad. Before the Nazi occupation, Kasztner's rescue committee had been dependent on the support of the Abwehr. Its international couriers had been agents of the Abwehr. The other central feature of the "rescue plan" was revealed by Adolf Eichmann on May 15. It is also mentioned by Kasztner in his statements about the Goods for Blood deal. The Eichmann-Kommando agreed to the exit of six hundred Jews under the "disguise" of a Nazi deportation.
