Comment: So you have no proof

of homicidal gas chambers and are now suggesting that the method of extermination might have been gas vans? Even mainline historians have never tried to make that claim, but don't let that stop you. The Holocaust is a myth after all, and you are free to be as creative as you like with myths.

Anyway, it is impossible to know the exact number of Jews who died in concentration camps, but using statistical data, we can estimate it to be somewhere between 300,000 to 600,000 at the highest. See 'Holocaust Victims: A Statistical Analysis': http://codoh.com/library/document/930

Note that Jewish population statistics before and after the war don't corroborate the claim that six million Jews even existed in Germany at that time, much less died. Also interesting is that the number of "holocaust survivors" has not decreased greatly over the years, even though 70 years after the war, at least 94% of WW2 survivors could be expected to be dead by 2012.

Regarding Hitler's reason for putting the Jews in camps, they were put there as political prisoners, because Judea declared war on Germany first. The Nazis had actually planned to deport the Jews to Madagascar, but that plan was put on indefinite hold after the outbreak of the war. You say it does not matter how the concentration camp victims died, that Hitler was ultimately responsible for their deaths anyway. Ignoring the fact that many died of Typhus (which the Germans tried to prevent via delousing, but had no way to combat effectively) the British, Americans and Soviets also had concentration camps for political prisoners where many died in equally horrid conditions. So they too are guilty of murder, are they not? So why is only Hitler demonized so greatly when no ones hands were clean? Why are the deaths of Jews in German concentration camps elevated above all others ("never forget" etc.), while the deaths of non-Jews are treated as a footnote? Again, it all comes down to who Hitler persecuted. Had it not been Jews, he would undoubtably be regarded as no worse than Stalin or Mao today.