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A single Nazi document—Meldung Nr. 51 (29 December 1942, Nuremberg NO-1128)<ref>Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949, pp. 269-272</ref> — 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.<ref>Hilberg 2003, Vol. III, p.1312; Arad 2009, p.263 (Mattogno, The Einsatzgruppen, pp.252-253)</ref> 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.<ref>Mattogno, The Einsatzgruppen, pp.252-259</ref>
A single Nazi document—Meldung Nr. 51 (29 December 1942, Nuremberg NO-1128)<ref>Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949, pp. 269-272</ref> — 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.<ref>Hilberg 2003, Vol. III, p.1312; Arad 2009, p.263 (Mattogno, The Einsatzgruppen, pp.252-253)</ref> 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.<ref>Mattogno, The Einsatzgruppen, pp.252-259</ref>


== Summary Table: Plausible Demographics ==
== Summary Table: Demographics ==


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Revision as of 16:02, 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

Demographic Suspect Pool for Meldung 51: 363k Jews as Targeted Cull in Mid-1942
Sub-Region Pre-War Jews (1939/41 est.) 1941 Losses (Evacuations/Einsatzgruppen) Mid-1942 Remnant (German Reports/Pre-Aug Operations) Fits 363k?
Bialystok salient ~150-200k ~50k east; pogroms ~100k (ghettos; e.g., Grodno/Volkovysk) 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 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).
Plus Reinhard Transits (Höfle peaks) N/A N/A +100-200k (suspects to labor?) Dynamic pool: 600-900k → 363k = 30-40% 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:

  • 447 combat engagements, 262 rail sabotages, 54 bridges/communication stations destroyed, 40 other attacks.
  • 140 Soviet defections via German propaganda.

Categories are combat-focused:

  • Bandits: 1,337 killed in fights; 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 hotspots. Himmler's Pinsk order (Oct. 1942) explicitly targets the ghetto as a "partisan center" threatening rail lines, sparing 1,000 laborers despite "economic objections." 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 of regions:

  • Polish Volhynia (Volyn/Rivne): ~171,000 victims (Kruglov).
  • Soviet Podolia: ~75,000.
  • Belarusian Polesie (Brest/Pinsk): ~86,000 (Gerlach).
  • Border extras (Kremenez): ~18,000.
  • Bialystok salient: ~100,000 ghettos.
  • Ukraine-Süd rear: ~100-200,000 stragglers/POWs (e.g., Voroshilovgrad remnants).

Static pool: 500-700,000

Add dynamic inflows: Höfle Telegram peaks (1.27M Reinhard "arrivals" Sep-Dec) suggest ~100-200,000 Generalgouvernement Jews transited via Bialystok for forced labor (e.g. OT roads/rails amid sabotages).

Result: 600-900,000 suspects → 363k = 30-60% targeted cull (threat networks), ~3,000/day with 10,000+ troops (Police Bns. 310/315/320 + Ukrainian aux).

Evidence Gaps and Hyperbole

The following suggest probable inflation by the SS:

  • Battalion diaries (Police Bn. 310): ~700 verified kills vs. claimed 41,000.
  • Bialystok Nov.: 25,000+ deportations to Auschwitz/Treblinka (Auschwitz Chronicle) — not "executions."
  • No mass graves matching scale (Aktion 1005 partial, small sites like Brest).
  • The reported figure of 363,211 is considered a "manifest exaggeration" by early Holocaust researcher Gerald Reitlinger[4]

Orthodox Claims Unravel

Bottom-up studies (USHMM Vol. II: 135 ghettos) reach ~350,000 via flawed sources:

  • Yizkor books and Soviet ChGK reports (propaganda-prone).
  • Dubious Polish transcripts (e.g., Lutsk "100% cleanup" order).[5]

Logistics strain: 91,000/month with minimal German losses? Gaps persist; double-counting rampant.

Conclusion: Total War Toll, Not Hitlerian Genocide

Meldung 51 captures desperate defense against Bolshevik subversion — Jews as prime suspects in reprisals. Toll is horrific (tens of thousands executed), but for military necessity, not racial doom. Forensic voids, hyperbole, and context demand reevaluation: no premeditated wipeout, just wartime brutality inflated by victors. The Holocaust narrative falters here — evidence favors scrutiny over myth.

Translated Document Images (from NMT Vol. XIII) [6]

  1. ↑ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949, pp. 269-272
  2. ↑ Hilberg 2003, Vol. III, p.1312; Arad 2009, p.263 (Mattogno, The Einsatzgruppen, pp.252-253)
  3. ↑ Mattogno, The Einsatzgruppen, pp.252-259
  4. ↑ Gerald Reitlinger, "The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe 1939-45," Jason Aronson, 1987, p. 226, originally published 1953
  5. ↑ Carlo Mattogno, "The Einsatzgruppen in the Occupied Eastern Territories," Holocaust Handbooks, Volume 39, 2nd revised edition, 2024, pp. 250-259, https://holocausthandbooks.com/book/the-einsatzgruppen-in-the-occupied-eastern-territories/
  6. ↑ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949, pp. 269-272
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