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| Total (Static) || ~1.5-2M || ~700k || ~500-700k || 363k = 40-60% cull (Jews as threats) with slight adjustment for inflation. | | Total (Static) || ~1.5-2M || ~700k || ~500-700k || 363k = 40-60% cull (Jews as threats) with slight adjustment for inflation. | ||
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| Plus | | Plus Reinhardt Transits (Höfle peaks) || N/A || N/A || +100-200k (suspects to labor?) || Dynamic pool: 600-900k → 363k = inflation-adjust to ~20-40% cull of Jews as threats (feasible sans gas/totality). | ||
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'''Static pool''': 500-700,000. | '''Static pool''': 500-700,000. | ||
'''Dynamic inflows''': Höfle Telegram peaks (1.27M | '''Dynamic inflows''': Höfle Telegram peaks (1.27M Reinhardt "arrivals" Sep-Dec)<ref>Höfle Telegram (NO-1124), 11 Jan 1943</ref> suggest ~100-200k Generalgouvernement Jews transited via Bialystok (under Prützmann) for forced labor (e.g., OT roads/rails amid sabotages)—correlated spikes imply partial inclusion as "executed": | ||
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Revision as of 21:19, 1 January 2026
A single Nazi document—Meldung Nr. 51 (29 December 1942, Nuremberg NO-1128)[1] — is often cited as a key proof of the 'Holocaust': 363,211 "Jews executed" in four months across "Russland-Süd, Ukraine, Bialystok." Historians like Raul Hilberg and Yitzhak Arad link it to the near-total murder of ~300,000 Jews in Ukraine's Volhynia-Podolia region.[2] Yet a closer examination—demographics, military framing, and internal logic — reveals something far more mundane and brutal: an exaggerated report of Eastern Front counterinsurgency successes against Soviet partisans and their suspected Jewish collaborators. This was no racial extermination ledger but a wartime scorecard incentivizing high body counts amid hellish partisan warfare.[3]
Summary Table: Demographics
| Sub-Region | Pre-War Jews (1939/41 est.) | 1941 Losses (Evacuations/Einsatzgruppen) | Mid-1942 Remnant (German Reports/Pre-Aug Ops) | Fits 363k? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bialystok salient | ~150-200k | ~50k east; pogroms | ~100k (ghettos; e.g., 15-22k Vladimir-Volynsky) | Yes—November sweeps/deports (~40k+ actions). |
| GK Volhynia-Podolia (Volyn/Rivne/Podolia/Polesie/Kremenez) | ~700-800k | ~300-400k (evacuations + 40k "resettled" EM 191) | 326k (MbO No. 5, May 1942; 135 ghettos; Kruglov ~350k subtotal) | Yes—171k Volhynia +75k Podolia +86k Polesie; forests pad estimates. |
| Ukraine-Süd/Russland-Süd extras (Zhitomir/Vinnitsa/east) | ~500k+ | Heavy (evacuations/early ops) | ~100-200k (stragglers/POWs; e.g., 1k+ Voroshilovgrad) | Yes—rail/swamp ops (Pinsk/Brest). |
| Total (Static) | ~1.5-2M | ~700k | ~500-700k | 363k = 40-60% cull (Jews as threats) with slight adjustment for inflation. |
| Plus Reinhardt Transits (Höfle peaks) | N/A | N/A | +100-200k (suspects to labor?) | Dynamic pool: 600-900k → 363k = inflation-adjust to ~20-40% cull of Jews as threats (feasible sans gas/totality). |
Military Context: Partisan War, Not Civilian Slaughter
Meldung 51 summarizes "Bandenbekämpfung" (anti-partisan efforts) under SS leader Odilo Globocnik-Prützmann's command in a vast ~200,000+ sq km partisan hotspot:
- 447 combat engagements, 262 rail sabotages, 54 bridges/communication stations destroyed, 40 other attacks.
- 140 Soviet defections ("Überläufer") via German propaganda—logical in counterinsurgency, inexplicable for genocide.
Categories are explicitly combat-oriented:
- Bandits: 1,337 killed in fights (footnote notes undercounts from Soviet body-hiding); 737 prisoners executed immediately; 7,828 after interrogation (~9,902 total).
- Helpers/suspects: 16,553 arrested; 14,257 executed (86% rate).
- Jews executed: 363,211, nested under suspects (monthly: Aug. 31k; Sep. 165k; Oct. 96k; Nov. 71k).
Pripyat Marshes and Bialystok were NKVD-organized hotspots with irregulars (likely over 100k) by late 1942. Himmler's Pinsk order (Oct. 1942) explicitly targets the ghetto as a "partisan center" threatening rail lines Brest-Gomel, sparing 1,000 laborers despite "economic objections."[5] No gas chambers, extermination euphemisms, or Hitler orders—just shootings ("exekutiert") of threats.
Demographics: Feasible Pool Without "Totality"
No need for impossible civilian annihilation. Mid-1942 German reports (Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten No. 5) counted 326,000 Jews in GK Volhynia-Podolia—a patchwork including Polish Volhynia (split Volyn/Rivne oblasti), Soviet Podolia, Belarusian Polesie (Brest/Pinsk), and extras like Kremenez:
- Polish Volhynia: ~171,000 victims (Kruglov 2004).
- Soviet Podolia (Proskuriv/Khmelnytskiy)**: ~75,000 (Kruglov).
- Belarusian Polesie: ~86,000 (Gerlach 1999).
- Kremenez (Tarnopol districts)**: ~18,000.
- Bialystok salient: ~100,000 ghettos.
Static pool: 500-700,000.
Dynamic inflows: Höfle Telegram peaks (1.27M Reinhardt "arrivals" Sep-Dec)[6] suggest ~100-200k Generalgouvernement Jews transited via Bialystok (under Prützmann) for forced labor (e.g., OT roads/rails amid sabotages)—correlated spikes imply partial inclusion as "executed":
| Month | Approx. Reinhardt Arrivals | Meldung 51 "Juden exekutiert" |
|---|---|---|
| Sep | ~250k | 165k |
| Oct | ~150k | 96k |
| Nov | ~100k+ | 71k |
Result: 600-900k suspects → 363k = 30-60% targeted cull (threat networks), ~3,000/day with 10,000+ troops (Police Bns. 310/315/320 + Ukrainian aux). Adjust for inflation/exaggeration: probable 20-40% actual cull.
Evidence Gaps and Hyperbole
Suggesting SS inflation:
- Battalion diaries (Police Bn. 310): ~700 verified kills Oct-Nov vs. claimed 41,000.[7]
- Bialystok Nov.: 25k+ deportations to Auschwitz/Treblinka—not "executions" (see: Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle).
- No mass graves matching scale.
- Figure deemed "manifest exaggeration" by early researcher Gerald Reitlinger.[8]
Orthodox Claims Unravel
Flawed Bottom-Up Evidence: Problems with Sources
Bottom-up studies (USHMM Encyclopedia Vol. II: 135 ghettos) reach ~350k via flawed sources:[9]
- Yizkor books and testimonies: Subject to fabrication, ideological motives, memory distortion, exaggeration
- Soviet ChGK/Extraordinary Commission reports: Propaganda-prone, with known fabrications and exaggerations for wartime atrocity claims.[10]
- Dubious Polish transcripts: E.g., Lutsk "100% cleanup" order—unverified copies of alleged German originals, potentially smuggled/destroyed.[11]
| Source Type | Key Reliance | Problems |
|---|---|---|
| Testimonies/Memoirs | Survivor/witness accounts (e.g., Yizkor) | Memory distortion, trauma bias, exaggeration (see below) |
| Soviet Archives/ChGK | Post-liberation investigations | Political manipulation, inflated numbers for propaganda; unverifiable graves without forensics.[12] |
| Memorial/Yad Vashem | Institutional records, yizkor compilations | Institutional bias; selective/incomplete data; conflicting dates/numbers (e.g., Lokachi: Sep 8/9/13; 1.5k-3.8k victims[13]). |
| Academic Reconstructions (Kruglov/USHMM) | Above + partial diaries | Self-referential; ignores contradictions; no primary mass-grave forensics matching scale. |
Flawed Bottom-Up Evidence: Absurdities and Contradictions
Specific "actions" underpinning orthodox tallies reveal inconsistencies, improbabilities, and grotesque claims undermining credibility:
| Location/Event | Claimed Victims | Key Issues/Quotes |
|---|---|---|
| Lutsk Ghetto (Aug 1942) | 15,000 | Dates vary (2 days vs. 1 week); graves: 3 pits (340m) vs. 4-5 (130-150m); trucks: 120 (125/truck impossible) vs. 3-6 rotations (550+ needed); no Kreutle photos exist.[14] |
| Kovel (Aug-Oct 1942) | 6,500+ | "Gebietskommissar" Erich Kassier: flamethrower-like device with "liquid" causing blue foam, dissolving flesh, porous bones—no known tech.[15] Yizkor: Children "burrowed in feces... put [feces] into their mouths and began to vomit" watched by laughing guards.[16] |
| Kremenets (Aug 1942) | 9,000 | Boy kicked into the air "like a football" between multiple Nazis and then up into a truck for execution.[17] |
| Rovno (Nov 1941 spillover) | Mass | "Earth shook and breathed for three days, since many were buried alive".[18] |
| Vishnevets | 200+ | Guards "ran on top of their backs like children... heavy shoes"; Nazi shoots baby causing mother to pass out and go into labor, then shoots the newborn mid-birth.[19] |
| Zinkov (Proskurow) | Mass | Child "cut into four pieces... 'meat for the Russians'", then rape and house-burning.[20] |
Logistical and Evidentiary Gaps
Meldung 51's peaks imply ~91,000 executions/month (~3,000/day) across vast terrain, yet with minimal German losses (only 174 German combat deaths total). Battalion records expose massive gaps: Police Bn. 310 diary logs ~700 verified Jewish executions (Oct-Nov) vs. claimed 41,000 attributed to the unit.[21] Bialystok "executions" (Nov: 70,948) include ~25,300 deportees to Auschwitz/Treblinka (many registered alive at Auschwitz), contradicting immediate "exekutiert."[22] No forensics match scale; rampant inflation evident.
Conclusion: Total War Toll, Not Hitlerian Genocide
Meldung 51 documents desperate counterinsurgency amid Eastern Front partisan hell — 447 engagements, rail and infrastructure sabotages — with Jews targeted as prime Bolshevik threats. Demographics fit approximate 30-60% cull (accounting for exaggerations) of ~600-900k suspects without "totality". With SS exaggerations, probable cull reduced to perhaps ~20-40%. Battalion gaps, double-counted deportees, absent forensics, and Yizkor absurdities unravel bottom-up tallies. The toll was horrific — tens of thousands executed in reprisals — but driven by military necessity, not premeditated racial doom. Forensic voids and context demand reevaluation: wartime brutality, victor-inflated into myth.
Translated Document Images (from NMT Vol. XIII) [23]
- ↑ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949, pp. 269-272
- ↑ Hilberg 2003, Vol. III, p.1312; Arad 2009, p.263
- ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.252-259
- ↑ Mattogno, C. (2024). "The Einsatzgruppen in the Occupied Eastern Territories", pp.252-259.; "New Document DLC dropped? [Meldung 51/NO-1128]", CODOH Forum (2024). https://www.codohforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=149
- ↑ Mattogno 2024, p.255
- ↑ Höfle Telegram (NO-1124), 11 Jan 1943
- ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.256-258
- ↑ Reitlinger 1987, p.226 (orig. 1953)
- ↑ USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol. II, 2012
- ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.250-259
- ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.253-254
- ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.252-259
- ↑ "Execution of Jews in Lokachi". Yahad. http://yahadmap.org/#village/lokachi-volyn-ukraine.158)
- ↑ Kruglov, A. “A Chronicle of the Holocaust in Ukraine 1941-1944” (2004)
- ↑ Kruglov, A. “A Chronicle of the Holocaust in Ukraine 1941-1944” (2004)
- ↑ Testimony of Ben–Zion Sher, “Kowel; sefer edut ve-zikaron le-kehilatenu she-ala aleha ha-koret (Kowel; testimony and memorial book of our destroyed community)”, ed. Eliezer Leoni-Zopperfin, Tel Aviv 1957, JewishGen, https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/kovel1/kov407.html
- ↑ Testimony of Tovye Troshinski, “Pinkas Kremenits; Sefer Zikaron (Memorial Book of Krzemieniec)”, ed. Abraham Samuel Stein, Tel Aviv 1954, JewishGen, https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/kremenets/kre251.html
- ↑ Testimony of Bluma Doitch, “Rovno, Ukraine: Rowne; sefer zikaron (Rowno; a memorial to the Jewish community of Rowno, Wolyn)”, eds. A. Avitachi, Tel Aviv 1956, JewishGen, https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/rovno/rov514.html
- ↑ Testimony of Zev Sobol et al., “Sefer Vishnivits: Sefer zikaron likedoshei Vishnivets shenispu besho'at hanatsim (Memorial book to the martyrs of Vishnevets who perished in the Nazi Holocaust)”, ed. Chayim Rabin, Tel Aviv 1970, JewishGen, https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Vishnevets/vis049.html and https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Vishnevets/vis093.html
- ↑ Testimony of Leonid and Y.R., “Pinkas Zinkov: Gedenkbukh (Zinkov memorial book)”, ed. Shmuel Aizenshtadt, Tel Aviv/New York 1966, JewishGen, https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/zinkov/zin173.html
- ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.256-258
- ↑ Mattogno 2024, p.258; Czech 1997, pp.266-272
- ↑ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949, pp. 269-272



