Höfle Telegram

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The Höfle Telegram was a secret 1943 Nazi radio message that detailed the number of Jews murdered in Operation Reinhard extermination camps, later becoming key evidence of the scale of the Holocaust.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust evidence
historical document
radio message
archivedBy British intelligence NERFINISHED
Government Communications Headquarters NERFINISHED
classification secret
codeSystem SS Enigma NERFINISHED
concerns Operation Reinhard extermination camps NERFINISHED
extermination of Jews
concernsOperation Operation Reinhard NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Nazi Germany
dateSent 1943-01-11
discoveredBy Peter Witte NERFINISHED
Stephen Tyas NERFINISHED
discoveredIn British archives
importance key quantitative evidence of the Holocaust
interceptedBy British codebreakers at Bletchley Park
language German
listsCamp Belzec extermination camp NERFINISHED
Lublin-Majdanek extermination camp NERFINISHED
Sobibor extermination camp NERFINISHED
Treblinka extermination camp NERFINISHED
listsLocationCode B (Belzec) NERFINISHED
L (Lublin-Majdanek) NERFINISHED
S (Sobibor) NERFINISHED
T (Treblinka) NERFINISHED
listsTimePeriod up to 31 December 1942
listsVictimNumbersFor Belzec extermination camp NERFINISHED
Lublin-Majdanek extermination camp NERFINISHED
Sobibor extermination camp NERFINISHED
Treblinka extermination camp NERFINISHED
medium radio
numberReportedForBelzec 434508 GENERATED
numberReportedForLublinMajdanek 24733 GENERATED
numberReportedForSobibor 101370 GENERATED
numberReportedForTreblinka 713555 GENERATED
relatedDocument Korherr Report NERFINISHED
sender Hermann Höfle NERFINISHED
sentBy SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle NERFINISHED
sentDuring Holocaust NERFINISHED
World War II NERFINISHED
sentFrom Lublin NERFINISHED
sentInYear 1943
sentTo RSHA Berlin NERFINISHED
SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann NERFINISHED
supportsEvidenceFor scale of Operation Reinhard killings GENERATED
totalNumberReported 1274166
transmissionType encoded radio telegram
usedAsEvidenceIn Holocaust historiography
victimGroup Jews NERFINISHED
yearOfDiscovery 2000

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Hermann Höfle wrote Höfle Telegram
Hermann Höfle notableWork Höfle Telegram