Image: Hoefletelegram

Description: Telegram from a deputy commander of Aktion Reinhard, listing number of arrivals in the extermination camps. Translation: Letter and 14 day report year-end report Camp i.d. to 31.12.1942 1942 total L ? Lublin (Majdanek) 12761 24733 B ? Belzec 0 434508 S ? Sobibor 515 101370 T ? Treblinka 10335 713555 (*) total: 23611 1274166 (*) note - the original reads 71355, but this is either a transmission/decoding, or a transcription error as 713555 gives the correct total.
Title: Hoefletelegram
Credit: Transcript of a telegram by Hermann Höfle. Public Record Office, Kew, England, HW 16/23, decode GPDD 355a distributed on January 15, 1943, radio telegrams nos 12 and 13/15, transmitted on January 11, 1943 Government Code and Cypher School German Police Section Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War; Reprinted in: Peter Witte and Stephen Tyas: A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during ‚Einsatz Reinhard’ 1942 In: Holocaust and Genocid Studies 15(2001) V 3, , S. 468-486 Online
Author: Hermann Höfle (1911–1962)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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