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 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 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 (of 1.27M total Reinhardt transits)[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":

Reinhardt Arrivals vs. Meldung 51 Spikes (Prützmann Area)
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" [8]
  • No mass graves matching scale.
  • Figure deemed "manifest exaggeration" by early researcher Gerald Reitlinger.[9]

Orthodox Claims Unravel

Flawed Bottom-Up Evidence: Problems with Sources

Bottom-up studies (USHMM Encyclopedia Vol. II: 135 ghettos) reach ~350k via flawed sources:[10]

  • 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.[11]
  • Dubious Polish transcripts: E.g., Lutsk "100% cleanup" order—unverified copies of alleged German originals, potentially smuggled/destroyed.[12]
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.[13]
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[14]).
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:

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.[15]
Kovel (Aug-Oct 1942) 6,500+ "Gebietskommissar" Erich Kassier: flamethrower-like device with "liquid" causing blue foam, dissolving flesh, porous bones — no known tech.[16] Yizkor: Children "burrowed in feces... put [feces] into their mouths and began to vomit" watched by laughing guards.[17]
Kremenets (Aug 1942) 9,000 Boy kicked into the air "like a football" between multiple Nazis and then up into a truck for execution.[18]
Rovno (Nov 1941 spillover) Mass "Earth shook and breathed for three days, since many were buried alive".[19]
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.[20]
Zinkov (Proskurow) Mass Child "cut into four pieces... 'meat for the Russians'", then rape and house-burning.[21]

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.[22] Bialystok "executions" (Nov: 70,948) include ~25,300 deportees to Auschwitz/Treblinka (many registered alive at Auschwitz), contradicting immediate "exekutiert."[23] 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 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. The toll was horrific — many 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) [24]

  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. ↑ Höfle Telegram (NO-1124), 11 Jan 1943
  7. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.256-258
  8. ↑ Mattogno 2024, p.258; Czech 1997, pp.266-272
  9. ↑ Reitlinger 1987, p.226 (orig. 1953)
  10. ↑ USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol. II, 2012
  11. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.250-259
  12. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.253-254
  13. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.252-259
  14. ↑ "Execution of Jews in Lokachi". Yahad. http://yahadmap.org/#village/lokachi-volyn-ukraine.158)
  15. ↑ Kruglov, A. “A Chronicle of the Holocaust in Ukraine 1941-1944” (2004)
  16. ↑ Kruglov (2004)
  17. ↑ 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
  18. ↑ 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
  19. ↑ 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
  20. ↑ 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
  21. ↑ 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
  22. ↑ Mattogno 2024, pp.256-258
  23. ↑ Mattogno 2024, p.258; Czech 1997, pp.266-272
  24. ↑ 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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