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

That the Nazis had been registering, imprisoning and murdering Jews in gas chambers and mass shootings, as part of a plan to rid occupied Europe of Jews, was known from before the end of the war. Initially it was referred to as a genocide, and the Holocaust was, and still is, largely known by Jews as the destruction or Shoah. The Holocaust is the most modern term and now most widely used.



Not true. The Auschwitz, other camp trials, Einsatzgruppen and trials of individual senior Nazis began in the 1940s. The AR camp trials began in the late 1950s.




I am not arguing the Soviets ran the hoax, I am arguing against it. I am also arguing that it is not a Jewish run hoax. It is too big a hoax for any group to run. Only someone with a predilection to believing in hoaxes and conspiracies will fall for the claim of the Holocaust was hoaxed.

For there to have been a hoax, needs the cooperation of the c2.5 million Jews you claim were not gassed, to pretend they were and not return home to claim their home, businesses and jobs. How were the 34,000 Dutch Jews sent from Westerbork to Sobibor in 1943, persuaded to pretend they were gassed there? Did the Nazis great them and tell them they were now part of a hoax, that was designed to make the Nazis look very bad? Or, were they all contacted at the end of the war and told not to return to the Netherlands, they were to be resettled elsewhere and they were to keep quiet about really happened at Sobibor?

You have clearly not thought through how the hoax could have worked.