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]

Summary Table: Demographics

Demographic Suspect Pool for Meldung 51: 363k Jews as Targeted Cull in Mid-1942[4]
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 Reinhard 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 Reinhard "arrivals" Sep-Dec) suggest ~100-200k Generalgouvernement Jews transited via Bialystok for forced labor (e.g., OT roads/rails amid sabotages).

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.[6]
  • Bialystok Nov.: 25k+ deportations to Auschwitz/Treblinka—not "executions" (see: Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle).
  • No mass graves matching scale (Aktion 1005 partial; small sites like Brest).
  • Figure deemed "manifest exaggeration" by early researcher Gerald Reitlinger.[7]

Orthodox Claims Unravel

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

  • Yizkor books, Soviet ChGK reports (propaganda-prone), dubious Polish transcripts (e.g., Lutsk "100% cleanup" order).[8]

Flawed Bottom-Up Evidence: 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 (125/truck impossible) vs. 3-6 rotations (550+ needed); no Kreutle photos exist.[9]
Kovel (Aug-Oct 1942) 6,500+ "Gebietskommissar" Erich Kassier: flamethrower-like device with "liquid" causing blue foam, dissolving flesh, porous bones—no known tech.[10] Yizkor: Children "burrowed in feces... put [feces] into their mouths and began to vomit" watched by laughing guards.[11]
Kremenets (Aug 1942) 9,000 Boy kicked into the air "like a football" between multiple Nazis and into a truck for execution.[12]
Rovno (Nov 1941 spillover) Mass "Earth shook and breathed for three days, since many were buried alive".[13]
Vishnevets 200+ Guards "ran on top of their backs like children... heavy shoes"; shooter kills newborn mid-birth.[14]
Zinkov (Proskurow) Mass Child "cut into four pieces... 'meat for the Russians'"; rape then house-burning.[15]

Logistics strain: 91k/month with minimal German losses? Gaps, 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 horrific (tens of thousands executed), but for military necessity, not racial doom. Forensic voids, hyperbole, absurd "eyewitness" claims, and context demand reevaluation: no premeditated wipeout, just wartime brutality inflated by victors. Holocaust narrative falters—evidence favors scrutiny over myth.

Translated Document Images (from NMT Vol. XIII) [16]

  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, 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
  5. ↑ Mattogno 2024, p.255
  6. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.256-258
  7. ↑ Reitlinger 1987, p.226 (orig. 1953)
  8. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.250-259
  9. ↑ Kruglov, A. “A Chronicle of the Holocaust in Ukraine 1941-1944” (2004)
  10. ↑ Kruglov, A. “A Chronicle of the Holocaust in Ukraine 1941-1944” (2004)
  11. ↑ 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
  12. ↑ 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
  13. ↑ 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
  14. ↑ 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
  15. ↑ 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
  16. ↑ 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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