So, how does this "hoax" work, anyway?

This has been discussed earlier here. The charge of "genocide" does not give minimum numbers of alleged victims; the charge being a matter of "intent" by the perpetrators. If the intent is to destroy, in part the Jews of Europe that would be Genocide, whether it be 6, 60, 6 thousand or six million.

Each person must decide if the conditions of Genocide and intent were committed by the Reich in consideration of the following information. I think the boxes are ticked to claim Genocide. The Holocaust is a different beast.

Genocide definition.

Article II (United Nations)


In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:



Killing members of the group;

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.



This is a much narrow definition of the term than public perception; it is identical to Article 6 of the  Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.   Crimes against humanity are ratified in the Rome Statue,  (Article 7).
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines crimes against humanity in Article 7 which entered into force on 17 July 1998.  Those interested in the history of the term genocide may refer to a previous post: what is the Holocaust.  

How many died is unknown, no doubt some were murdered; this is true if euthanasia was implemented as suggested. It is a very slippery slope from euthanizing terminally ill to those who just annoy. The potential misuse of such power is enormous, especially under conditions of war and the deprivations that are a part of it.

Incarcerating people without the demanding necessities of life, adequate nutrition and medicine is criminal neglect. I have in mind the Corfu people who apparently spent days on a transport without water, the people in Latvia in cardboard shelters, the measles epidemic near Kaiserwald that killed 500 kids.

In modern times if a farmer has diseased stock they are dealt with. This happened in Rumania when a militia group shot thousands of jews who had typhus. I am sure the doctors in the camps had similar issues to face with diseased and dying people; perhaps euthanasia was a viable option. Typhus in the camps had a 60% fatality rate.

Ulios calculated the natural mortality rate in the European Jewish population over those years (same as the Philippines) at 1.8 million, the birth rate being nil. With neglect, starvation, freezing conditions, disease the death rate would be at least double to 3.6 million to which the anti partisan Einsatz actions can be added. I really do not think that gas chambers are a necessity, or mass murder. Life expectancy would have been low enough.

That's heresy.

I would like an answer to my question about the Dutch Jews. At what point were they made aware that they were now part of a hoax and could not return to the Netherlands?

That is a question for you to answer, since you claim the 34,000 Dutch Jews sent to Sobibor in 1943 were not gassed. At what point were they told they were part of a hoax and they could not return to the Netherlands and reclaim their homes, other property jobs and businesses? How were they made to agree to cooperating with the hoax? What about the 18 who did return to the Netherlands to reclaim their old lives?

As the Lantos family mentioned in the book "Parallel Lines", the Soviets kept many concentration camp prisoners captive to rebuild Russia and make up for the losses.  These issues should be investigated long before the "where did they go" wail.

If there was a quick and easy answer it could be given but it seems they were spread out like butter across many loaves of bread.