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Translation The translation of the decoded message that British intelligence intercepted is 12. OMX de OMQ 1000 89 ? ? State Secret! To the Reich Main Security Office, for the attention of SS Obersturmbannführer EICHMANN, BERLIN ...gap rest missed 13/15 OLQ de OMQ 1005 83 234 250 State Secret! To the Senior Commander of the Security Police, for the attention of SS Oberststurmbannführer HEIM, CRACOW. Regarding: fortnightly report Einsatz REINHARDT. Reference: radio telegram therefrom Recorded arrivals until 31.12.42, L 12761, B 0, S 515, T 10335 together 23611. Situation...gap 31.12.42, L 24733, B 434508, S 101370, T 71355, together 1274166. SS and Police Leader Lublin, HÖFLE, Sturmbannführer. For clarity the figures may be arranged as a table: Recorded arrivals for the 2 weeks until 31 December 1942 Sum total as at 31 December 1942 L (Lublin Majdanek) 12 761 24 733 B (Belzec) 0 434 508 S (Sobibor) 515 101 370 T (Treblinka} 10 335 713 555(See Importance of the document According to the US National Security Agency, "It appears the British analysts who had decrypted the message missed the significance of this particular message at the time. No doubt this happened because the message itself contained only the identifying letters for the death camps followed by the numerical totals. The only clue would have been the reference to Operation Reinhard, the meaning of which – the plan to eliminate Polish Jewry that was named after the assassinated SS General Reinhard Heydrich – also probably was unknown at the time to the codebreakers at Bletchley." This document is only the second to detail the numbers involved in the execution of Einsatz Reinhardt (the other is Korherr’s report, which makes use of the figures in this radio telegram). Apart from indicating the numbers for 1942, it also indicates that the camp at Lublin (Majdanek), was part of Odilo Globocnik's "Einsatz Reinhardt", a fact that historians previously had not realised. The discovery of these exact numbers has raised questions as to where the Jews that were admitted to the respective camps came from. At this stage it is still speculative. | ||||||||||
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