Report No. 51 to the Fürher
(Yad Vashem Collections, O.18, file no. 292) This is a report from Heinrich Himmler to Hitler on the combatting of partisans in the Ukraine area. Many people will feel the need to point out the fact that the 363211 Jews executed are listed under the "Gang Helpers and Gang Suspects" (in this case, "gang" refers to partisan" section. This is true, but that doesn't mean those Jews were legitimately bandit helpers or in any way complicit with partisans. However, as shown by the analysis of the report done by Hanz Metzner , the population of the areas which saw around 85% of these killings was about 326,000, so the overwhelming majority of these Jews - many of whom were women and children - would have had to be helping partisans. That is, however, unlikely due to the fact that, as an armament inspector in Ukraine p...
