The Germans vetoed surrender and Installed a more compliant Prime Minister. Besides. there was unfinished business: bringing "the final solution" to almost 900.000 Jews in Hungary. the last large remaining Jewish population in Europe. Hitler had become enraged by their continued existence in Hungary. his supposed ally. In March 1944. he had sent in German troops. he also had sent Eichmann to supervise the Jewish operation. By July. some 400.000 Jews had been deported from the countryside to be gassed in Auschwitz and Birkenau. 300.000 more remained in various deportation centers and concentration camps. In Budapest. 200.000 others had been penned In ghettos in starmarked houses. waiting. By late fall.
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