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The Höfle Telegram (or Hoefle Telegram) is a document discovered in 2000 among recently declassified World War II materials from the Public Record Office in Kew, England. Sent by SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle on January 11, 1943 to SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in Berlin, it gave death tolls for the Aktion Reinhard camps through December 31, 1942.
According to the 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."
Camp i.d. to 31.12.1942 1942 total
L – Lublin 12,761 24,733
B – Belzec 0 434,508
S – Sobibor 515 101,370
T – Treblinka 10,335 713,555
Total 23,611 1,274,166
According to the 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."
Camp i.d. to 31.12.1942 1942 total
L – Lublin 12,761 24,733
B – Belzec 0 434,508
S – Sobibor 515 101,370
T – Treblinka 10,335 713,555
Total 23,611 1,274,166
