740.0011 European War 1939/5946: Telegram
The Minister in Rumania (Gunther) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 10—2:30 a.m.]
585. The rumors referred to in my 579, October 7, 6 p.m., persist. Rumanian General Staff and German Military Attaché however continue categorically to deny presence of any German troops in Rumania although I am reliably informed that arrangements are being made for the housing of German military units and staffs expected to arrive as training cadres in the near future. It is probable that these rumors result in part from the presence in Bucharest and elsewhere of German individuals and organizations in SS30 field uniforms and engaged in the evacuation of Germans from the Bukowina, Bessarabia and Dobrudja.
I believe that ex-King Carol made a request for a German military mission as long ago as last July and also that conversations have continued since then embracing the possibility of the detail of a complete German air unit for the protection of Rumania’s oil supplies.
Please inform War Department.
[For correspondence regarding the freezing of property, credits, etc., of Rumania and Rumanian nationals in the United States, see volume II, pages 780 ff. For the text of Executive Order No. 8565, October 10, 1940, see 5 Federal Register 4062. For text of the regulations of the Treasury Department, issued on October 10, 1940, see ibid., 4063.]
- German Schutzstaffel, elite corps of the Nazi Party used for military and police purposes.↩