Meldung 51 (NO-1128)

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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]

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. Categories are explicitly combat-oriented, with "Jews executed" nested under suspects (monthly: Aug. 31k; Sep. 165k; Oct. 96k; Nov. 71k).

Operational Summary

  • 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.
  • 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.

Key Hotspots and Orders

In the Meldung 51 region, Pripyat Marshes and Bialystok were NKVD-organized hotspots with many non-regular combatants (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."[4]

Strategic Necessity: Jews as Partisan Threats

Meldung 51 reflects not gratuitous genocide, but desperate countermeasures in total war, where Jews were viewed as prime vectors of Bolshevik subversion and were overrepresented in partisan ranks.[5] Partisans posed existential threats: Meldung 51 logs hundreds of engagements, rail attacks, and more. Jewish partisans actively derailed hundreds of trains and killed 3,000+ Germans in Lithuania alone.[6] A female Jewish partisan is credited to have blown up multiple German troop trains, killing hundreds, and praised in Soviet press.[7] Even more significant than Jewish direct participation as partisans was their disproportionate role in organizing these networks.[8]

German Perspective: Total War Calculus

From Germany's view: two world wars (both originating with "Jewish hand," per revisionist analysis) killed millions of civilians, including ~500,000 Germans via Allied bombing such as the tens of thousands burned alive at Dresden.[9] Postwar, more than two million German civilians died in expulsions and millions of women of all ages were raped by Soviets.[10] Fewer Jews arguably meant fewer sabotages, fewer dead soldiers and German civilians, less subversion, and with a greater chance at victory — a strategic/moral calculus in hellish context: "us vs. them" to save countless German lives (including children) via harsh preemptive targeting.

No gas chambers, extermination euphemisms, or Hitler orders are connected to Meldung 51 — just shootings ("exekutiert") of threats to internal security in history's bloodiest war.

SS Evidence Gaps and Hyperbole

Evidence suggests considerable SS inflation of 'exekutiert' totals:

  • Proven instances of exaggeration in individual reports, up to orders of magnitude:
  • Einsatzgruppen Incident Report where actual 1,134 was changed to 11,034[11]
  • Similar reports where, according to Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm (a Professor of History at Cologne University and leading Einsatzgruppen expert), "several tens of thousands of exterminated Jews were added in order to ‘improve’ the results"[12]
  • Battalion diaries (Police Bn. 310): ~700 verified kills in October-November vs. claimed 41,000.[13]
  • Bialystok in November 1942: 25k+ deportations to Auschwitz/Treblinka — not "executions" [14]
  • No mass graves reflecting scale.
  • Figure in Meldung 51 deemed "manifest exaggeration" by early researcher Gerald Reitlinger.[15]

Demographics: Far From "Totality"

Overview

Meldung 51 entails 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 (of 1.27M total Reinhardt transits)[16] 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":

Reinhardt Transits vs. Meldung 51 Spikes (Prützmann Area)
Month Approx. Reinhardt Transits Meldung 51 "Juden exekutiert"
September ~250k 165k
October ~150k 96k
November ~100k+ 71k

Overall Result: 600-900k suspects (Jews) → 363k = pre-adjusted 30-60% targeted cull against Jewish threat networks. Modest adjustment for inflation/exaggeration arrives at a plausible 20-40% actual cull.

Summary Table

Demographic Pool for Meldung 51: 363k Jews as Targeted Cull in Mid-1942[17]
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., 1,038 Voroshilovgrad counted Sep 1942 remnant — post-Jul overrun vs. 7k+ pre-war)[18] Yes — eastern rear ops (rail sabotages, straggler sweeps).
Total (Static) ~1.5-2M ~700k ~500-700k 363k = 40-60% cull (Jews as threats) factoring slight downward adjustment to account for SS exaggerations.
Plus Reinhardt Transits (Höfle peaks) N/A N/A +100-200k (suspects to labor?) Dynamic pool: 600-900k → 363k = SS exaggeration-adjust to ~20-40% cull of Jews as threats (feasible sans gas/totality).

Flawed Bottom-Up Evidence

Problems with Sources

Bottom-up studies (USHMM Encyclopedia Vol. II: 135 ghettos) reach ~350k via flawed sources:[19]

  • 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.[20]
  • Dubious Polish transcripts: E.g., Lutsk "100% cleanup" order — unverified copies of alleged German originals, potentially smuggled/destroyed.[21]
Common Bottom-Up Sources and Inherent Flaws
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.[22]
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[23]).
Academic Reconstructions (Kruglov/USHMM) Above + partial diaries Self-referential; ignores contradictions; no primary mass-grave forensics matching scale.

Absurdities and Contradictions

Specific "actions" underpinning orthodox tallies reveal inconsistencies, improbabilities, and grotesque claims undermining credibility:

Examples from Volhynia-Podolia (Meldung 51 Period)
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 trips total (125 Jews per truck impossible) vs. 3-6 trucks in rotation (550+ trips needed); no Kreutle photos exist despite claim.[24]
Kovel (Aug-Oct 1942) 6,500+ "Gebietskommissar" Erich Kassier claims Nazis used a flamethrower-like device with "liquid" causing blue foam, dissolving flesh, porous bones — no such tech existed.[25] Yizkor: Starving children "burrowed in feces... then put [feces] into their mouths and began to vomit" while watched by laughing guards.[26]
Kremenets (Aug 1942) 9,000 Boy kicked into the air "like a football" between multiple Nazis then over and into a truck for execution.[27]
Rovno (Nov 1941 spillover) Mass "Earth shook and breathed for three days, since many were buried alive".[28]
Vishnevets 200+ Guards made 200 Jews lie on ground then "ran on top of their backs like children... danced with their heavy shoes"; Nazi shoots baby causing mother to pass out and go into labor, then shoots the newborn mid-birth.[29]
Zinkov (Proskurow) Mass Child "cut into four pieces... 'meat for the Russians'", then rape and house-burning.[30]

The Case for Forgery

Although Meldung 51 fits reasonably within a revisionist framework, the possibility of modifications or forgery should nonetheless be considered. Archival German copies of Meldung 51 (three in total)[31] have only minimal handwriting and initials for possible verification purposes. Modifications could be as simple as removing one character of text from the original copies and using a captured German typewriter to add numerical digits:

Original:
Jews executed 1246 5282 5735 948 13211
Modified:
Jews executed 31246 165282 95735 70948 363211

The possibility of forgery must be weighted in accordance with the motive of victorious powers to re-shape the postwar world using the means of major intelligence agencies available to them (e.g. OSS, SOE, NKVD — each of which had sophisticated forgery departments).

Conclusion: Total War, Not Hitlerian Genocide

With assumed authenticity, Meldung 51 provides documentation of desperate counterinsurgency amid Eastern Front partisan hell — 447 engagements, rail and infrastructure sabotages — with Jews targeted as over-represented Bolshevik threats and partisans. Demographics fit up to 30-60% cull of ~600-900k suspects without "totality". Battalion gaps, double-counted deportees, absent forensics, and Yizkor absurdities unravel bottom-up tallies. With reduction for SS exaggerations, plausible cull of ~20-40% of Jews across the Volhynia-Podolia region. Such a toll is horrific — many tens of thousands executed in reprisals — but driven by military necessity, not premeditated racial doom. Massive forensic voids and context demand further evaluation.

Translated Document Images (from NMT Vol. XIII) [32]

  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
  3. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.252-259
  4. ↑ Mattogno 2024, p.255
  5. ↑ "Jewish partisans". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_partisans
  6. ↑ USHMM, "Jewish Partisans in Lithuania," archived https://web.archive.org/web/20060615013136/http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/jpart.htm
  7. ↑ "Jews In Occupied Europe Strike Back," The Australian Jewish Herald, 3 Mar 1944, p.6
  8. ↑ Rudolf, G. Schroder, S. (2003). "Partisan War and Reprisal Killings". https://codoh.com/library/document/partisan-war-and-reprisal-killings/
  9. ↑ Wikipedia: German casualties in World War II (RAF/USAAF raids)
  10. ↑ R.M. Douglas, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (2012)
  11. ↑ Mattogno 2024, p.64; also see Krausnick, H. and Wilhelm, H.-H. (1981). "Die Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD 1938-1942", p.535. Cited in Rudolf, G., "Dissecting the Holocaust".
  12. ↑ Krausnick, H. and Wilhelm, H.-H. (1981). "Die Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD 1938-1942", p.515. Cited in Rudolf, G., "Dissecting the Holocaust".
  13. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.256-258
  14. ↑ Mattogno 2024, p.258; Czech 1997, pp.266-272
  15. ↑ Reitlinger 1987, p.226 (orig. 1953)
  16. ↑ Höfle Telegram (NO-1124), 11 Jan 1943
  17. ↑ 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
  18. ↑ German military administration report, Sep 1942 (Voroshilovgrad/Luhansk); Kruglov 2005 (oblast totals)
  19. ↑ USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol. II, 2012
  20. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.250-259
  21. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.253-254
  22. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.252-259
  23. ↑ "Execution of Jews in Lokachi". Yahad. http://yahadmap.org/#village/lokachi-volyn-ukraine.158)
  24. ↑ Kruglov, A. “A Chronicle of the Holocaust in Ukraine 1941-1944” (2004)
  25. ↑ Kruglov (2004)
  26. ↑ 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
  27. ↑ 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
  28. ↑ 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
  29. ↑ 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
  30. ↑ 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
  31. ↑ "Report to Hitler: 'Jews executed: 363,211'". HolocaustControversies. https://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2019/11/report-to-hitler-jews-executed-363211.html
  32. ↑ 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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