Wednesday, April 2, 2025

In Treblinka, 713 555 victims were recorded by the end of the year 1942. Deportations started from the Warszawa Ghetto on July 22, 1942.

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).


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. Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg wrote:
The Reichsbahn was ready to ship in principle any cargo in return for payment. And therefore, the basic key – price controlled key – was that Jews were going to be shipped to Treblinka, were going to be shipped to Auschwitz, Sobibor ... so long as the railroads were paid by the track kilometer, so many pfennigs per mile. The rate was the same throughout the war, with children under ten going at half-fare and children under four going free. Payment had to be made for only one way. The guards of course had to have return fare paid for them because they were going back to their place of origin.

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