astro3 wrote:Bob – Thanks for correcting my careless mistake. Concerning the number given for Treblinka, You say, ‘the error is on the British side, just a typo.’
Please go back to previous page under ’Hoefle Telegram’ and view the two decrypts I have copied out, from the two different documents ‘HW 16/66’ and ‘HW 16/23’. Note how the immediately preceding texts are quite different. Thus this message has been DECRYPTED TWICE both times in January 1943. Hence the numbers cannot have been just a typing error!
Yes the text is different, but I think I can provide you with explanation. Also, in
your versions on previous page, there are more typos or differences, for better comparison of all versions here they are together with reported reference.
Firstly the official messages with reproduced documents so we can be sure that what we see is the real text from original documents and without any more typos caused by someone else. From the David Irving´s
website and from the article dated July 20, 2011. I marked as blue differences between the two messages:
HW 16/65 (Public Record Office)
(h)
A.A. Courses. The Luftwaffe is holding training courses for members of
the Flakwaffe in the first quarter of 1943. SS. Pz. Gren. Div. “Wiking” is
urged to take full advantage of this opportunityas new units with special
weapons will be formed in the very near future. (356d9-15).
(i)
Einsatz REINHARDT. SS und Pol.fuehrer LUBLIN sends the Befehlshaber der
Sipo KRAKAU a report on Einsatz REINHARDT for the 14 days up to
31.1.42. Increase to 31.12.42: L12761, B 0, S515, T 10335, altogether 23611. Totals on
31.12.42: L24733, B 434508, S 101370, T 71355: altogether 1274166 (
355a 13).
Photographed reference
HW 16/23 (Public Record Office)
GPDD
355a 2.12. OMX de OMQ 1000 89 ? ?
Geheime Reichssache! An das Reichssicherheitshauptamt, zu
Händen SS Obersturmbannführer EICHMANN, BERLIN ... rest missed..
13/15. OLQ de OMQ 1005 83 234 250
Geheime Reichssache! An den Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspol.,
zu Händen SS Obersturmbannführer HEIM, KRAKAU.
Betr: 14-tägige Meldung Einsatz REINHART. Bezug: dort.
Fs. Zugang bis
31.12.42, L 12761, B 0, S 515, T 10335 zusammen
23611. Stand... 31.12.42, L 24733, B 434508, S 101370,
T 71355, züsammen 1274166.
SS und Pol.führer LUBLIN, HOEFLE, Sturmannführer.
Now your versions astro3, I marked as orange only your own typos or differences (but not differences like missing points, spaces, brackets or special letters like “ü”) when compared to the original documents, I included even your message under letter g):
astro3 wrote:HW 16/66 (Public Record Office)
g) Norway The Reichskomissar has refused to allow a conference of the Germanische Landdienst or the recruiting of 200 men for a Ski camp. Instead a Wehrertuechtigungslager for 17 yr olds is proposed as a means of producing volunteers for the Waffen SS.
h) A.A. Courses The Luftwaffe is holding training courses for members of
the Flakwaffe in the first quarter of 1943. SS. Pz. Gren. Div. “Wiking” is
urged to take full advantage of this opportunity as new units with special
weapons will be formed in the very near future. (356d9-15).
i) Einsats REINHARDT. SS und Pol.fuehrer LUBLIN sends the Befehlshaber der
Sipo KRAKAU a report on Einsatz REINHARDT for the 14 days up to 31.1.42.
Increase to 31.12.42: L127621, B 0, Ss515, T 10335, altogether 23611. Totals on
31.12.42: L24735, B 434508, S 101370, T 71355: altogether 1274166 (355a 13).
HW 16/23 (Public Record Office)
12. OMX de OMQ
Geheime Reichssache! An das Reichssicherheitshauptamt, zu
Händen SS Obersturmbannfuhrer EICHMANN, BERLIN ... rest missed.
13/15 OLQ de OMG
Geheime Reichssache! An den Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspol.,
zu Händen SS Obersturmbannfuhrer HEIM, KRAKAU.
Betr: 14-tägige Meldung Eintatz REINHART. Bezug: dort.
Fs. Zugang bis 31.12.42, L 12761, B 0, S 515, T 10335 zusammen
23611. Stand... 31.12.42, L 24733, B 434508, S 101370,
T 71355, züsammen 1274166.
SS und Pol.führer LUBLIN, HOEFLE, Sturmannführer.
You also missed important reference number stated in the original German “version” of the Höfle´s telegram.
Now the explanation for two different versions of this message, is quite simple, David Irving said:
THEN, as my readers know, Steve Tyas mentioned he had more recently found another wartime British document referring to [see above HW 16/65] , and summarising, the Höfle document.
[...]
Under III Miscellaneous in one of the monthly summaries in this piece is this concluding paragraph, after paragraphs (a) through (h):
So what we have here is not the different or second decrypted version, but only a summarized version of the previous original and again - with even more typos, 31.1.42 instead of 31.12.42 or probably even the reference to original documents is given wrong too - 355a 13 instead of 355a 2 - or here I am maybe wrong and number 13 has nothing to do with the reference and then the reference 355a is correct. This is obviously only some report summarizing various decrypted messages from various periods + reference number in brackets, and Höfle´s telegram is included in this report. Thus there is not a complete and exact transcript of the original message, but only a summarized version for superiors and this message follows after the others which are again clearly only summarized versions of some original decrypted messages, you even provided previous message marked as (g). For this reason, this version is in English language. When you look closely at the style of these summarized versions, you can notice that it really looks like a short story of some more complex message.
I think this mystery is resolved, there aren´t two decrypted versions of the same telegram.
astro3 wrote:Concerning the number given for Treblinka, You say, ‘the error is on the British side, just a typo.’
Yes, I think that this explanation is still valid.
astro3 wrote:Then, go to the totals of Russians, Poles and Jews per month for Auschwitz (page 1) which I’ve copied out every three months. Through this key period we’re talking about, see how the number of Jews increases by several thousand per three months. OK? Auschwitz was a lot larger than Treblinka. So, is it likely that five thousand per day were arriving at Treblinka with such enormously smaller numbers arriving at Auschwitz?
I think that most of the camps were larger than Treblinka II, but the only purpose of Treblinka II camp was to transit people to the East (or in some cases to other camps), maybe this explains why so many people went through this camp in comparison to much larger camps? Maybe they wanted to have people - which went through Treblinka - in some specific location that could be best reached via this camp and for this reason they transported so many of them through this camp in this period. Belzec or Sobibór were small too, but lot of people went through as well.
astro3 wrote:Lastly, note how the ‘totals’ there given are not the sum of the other three columns, they never match up. So something is going on here that we don’t quite understand. All I’m saying is, that 71,355 looks like an intentional figure for arrivals at Treblinka.
In the original correctly reproduced documents, all totals are correct and they match up, but in the case of number 1274166 one must bear in mind that there is a typo. We can only wonder why - in the report mentioned above - there isn´t some message for superiors with an explanation for this problem, maybe this was clear to all or they believed that message is correct and number was incorrectly reported by Höfle, who knows.
I consider as an impossibility that the correct number is 71,355, and Höfle´s (and the others) arithmetic was so poor or that nobody was able to spot this gross error resulting in 642,200 fictional re-settlers and they all repeated the same wrong numbers.