The “letter action” program was a plan whereby the Nazis forced Jews to write letters and send postcards to folks back home in the ghettos to tell them how pleasant conditions were in the work camps.
Historians assure us that this is why the Jews never figured out what was really going on in the camps.
I suppose nobody wondered why the letters didn’t keep coming; why they stopped suddenly, for everybody. Our why letters people wrote back to the camps were never responded to.
Historians would have us assume that nobody ever escaped from the camps, that Jewish resistance groups never infiltrated the extreme security enveloping the main camps and the thousands of subcamps.
LOL. There was no security at the camps. One Nazi effort to relocate people from the Warsaw Ghetto to Auschwitz met with a little resistance, and it was canceled four days later.
The Nazis were extremely limited on manpower. Every able-bodied man and boy was at the front or on the factory assembly lines. The Nazis used sheepdogs to herd prisoners at some camps; manpower was so limited. Trustees did almost everything, including stoking the crematorium fires and disposing of the dead.
The slightest bit of resistance and the whole system would have collapsed. And we’re supposed to believe that the world-wise, always suspicious Jews were fooled by a couple of postcards from the work camps?