ISCOT 399

This is an intercept made by the UK Foreign Office which originated with a COMINTERN group somewhere in Poland (presumably). It is a document pertaining to the gassing of Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau in mid-1944

Here is a transcript below (source: The National Archives, Kew, HW 17/56):

TOP SECRET.
TO BE KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY: NEVER TO BE REMOVED FROM THE OFFICE

                 No:       ISCOT 399.
                    Date:    21st October, 1944.
Service 133.
To:  17 [ZAVADSKI]                 
From:  18 [VECLAV]                     

No:   1.                        
Date: 25th June, 1944.                 
[ A very corrupt message only     
readable in parts].                    
     In the concentration camp of          
OSVIECIM the Germans are gradually killing
from five to ten thousand Hungarian [1 or 2
words missing; possibly the missing word is
a repitition of Hungarian] Jews.      
 Approximately [1 word] thousands have been
gassed [2 words] month [several groups  
corrupt] for the removal and [1 word] of   
German prisoners of war to ENGLAND.   
[4 groups corrupt] Hungarian Jews about  
this.                  



D.D/S.P.(2).                            

I am working on getting permission to publish a full color scan of the document here, but for now this should suffice. 


About the Document

This document is an English translation of an intercept from the British Foreign Office in 1944. This report originated with a COMINTERN (Communist International) group. The ISCOT reports were communications within the COMINTERN organization and linked Moscow with the various outposts across Europe. British interception of these messages began in 1943. This document specifically pertains to the gassing of Hungarian Jews in mid-1944. It helps offer insight into how much the USSR and various communist groups knew about this (albeit not much insight, given that most of the intercept was corrupted). In any case, this document is one of the many intercepts that helps to debunk the Holocaust Denier notion that there were no Holocaust-related intercepts in the Second World War.

Until next time!


Sources

The National Archives, Kew, HW 17/56

Hanyok, Robert J. Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945. 2005. https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-figures-publications/publications/wwii/eavesdropping.pdf
Location: 89J44RM9+PC

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