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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).
