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| Radio telegram - a top-secret message sent by SS Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle. |
In Treblinka, 713,555 victims were recorded by the end of the year 1942. That means more than 100,000 were murdered there every month. The total in four death camps was 1 274 166. The Höfle telegram is a cryptic one-page document discovered in 2000 among the declassified World War II archives of the Public Record Office in Kew, England. The document consists of several radio telegrams in translation, among them a top-secret message sent by SS Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle on 11 January 1943 and one to SS Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in Berlin. The telegram contains the detailed statistics on the 1942 killings of Jews in the extermination camps of Operation Reinhard, including at Belzec (B), Sobibor (S), Treblinka (T), and at Lublin-Majdanek (L). 13/15 OLQ de OMQ 1005 83 234 250
State secret! To the commander of the Security Police, for the attention of SS Obersturmbannführer HEIM, KRAKAU. Re: 14-day report operation REINHARD. Reference: radio telegram from there
Recorded arrivals until December 42, L 12761, B 0, S 515, T 10335, totalling 23611. Situation 31 December 42, L 24733, B 434508, S 101370, T 71355, totalling 1274166. SS and police leader of Lublin, HOFLE, Sturmbannführer
Treblinka is the place where most of the Polish Jews were murdered (not Auschwitz). The data presented by Höfle are in good agreement with the data from the RB - German railways - 713 555. Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg wrote:

