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Höfle Telegram
The Höfle Telegram (or Hoefle Telegram) is a cryptic one page document discovered in 2000 among the declassified World War II archives of the Public Record Office in Kew, England. The document consists of two top secret messages, one to ''SS Obersturmbannführer'' Adolf Eichmann in Berlin, and one to ''SS Obersturmbannführer'' Franz Heim in German-occupied Kraków (Cracow), sent by ''SS Sturmbannführer'' Hermann Höfle on 11 January 1943.〔Public Record Office, Kew, England, HW 16/23, decode GPDD 355a distributed on 15 January 1943, radio telegrams nos 12 and 13/15, transmitted on 11 January 1943.〕〔
The Telegram contains the detailed statistics on the 1942 killings of Jews in the extermination camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, and in the concentration camp Lublin-Majdanek; as compiled by Höfle most likely from the very exacting records shared with the ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'' (DRG). Even though the Holocaust train-records were notoriously incomplete as revealed by the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes against the Polish Nation, the quoted numbers shed a new light on the evidential standard of proof for the scope of the crimes committed by the SS. The telegram gave arrivals in the prior fortnight, as well as cumulative arrivals until 31 December 1942, for the camps of ''Einsatz Reinhardt'' (later commonly called ''Aktion Reinhard''), the most deadly phase of the "Final Solution".〔
==Background==
The SS paid German Railways the equivalent of a third class ticket for every prisoner transported to extermination camps of Operation Reinhard from the Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe and the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust.〔(Types of Ghettos. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. )〕 Children under four went free. The payment was collected by the German Transport Authority on behalf of the ''Reichsbahn'' according to a schedule, at a cost of 4 Pfennig per each track kilometer. The actual waybills did not include the number of prisoners per each ''Güterwagen'' boxcar because calculations were predetermined. The standard means of delivery was a 10 metre long cattle freight wagon, although third class passenger carriages were also used when the ''SS'' wanted to keep up the "resettlement to work in the East" myth. The DRB railway manual which was used by the ''SS'' for making payments, had a listed carrying capacity of each trainset set up at 50 boxcars, each loaded with 50 prisoners.〔
In reality, boxcars were crammed with up to 100 persons and routinely loaded from the minimum of 150% to 200% capacity for the same price. This resulted in an average of 5,000 people per trainset; 100 persons in each freight car multiplied by 50 cars. Notably, during the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka in 1942 trains carried up to 7,000 victims each, which means that the SS did not have to forward the payment for the rail transport of more than half of the victims in that time period. According to an expert report established on behalf of the German "Train of Commemoration" project, the receipts taken in by the state-owned ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'' for mass deportations in the period between 1938 and 1945 reached a sum of US $664,525,820.34.
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