The Holocaust: Gentile Victims Of The Holocaust

Gentile Victims of the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, sixteen to twenty million Gentiles from various countries throughout Europe were killed. These victims included Gypsies, Poles and other Slavic people, people who were physically or mentally disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, clergymen, political enemies, resistance fighters, asocials, African-German children, and still others. Each group wore different colored badges as means of identification. These non-Jewish victims died from starvation, executions, beatings, overworking, relocations, gassing, experiments, and disease, resulting in devastating losses. The Gypsies were one of the many non-Jewish groups targeted in the Holocaust. They were viewed as racially inferior by the
They were targeted because of their acts against the Nazis. Even some German citizens were killed for refusing to follow Hitler. Groups such as Poland’s Underground Army were responsible for saving thousands of lives. Also known as “freedom fighters”, it is unknown exactly how many of these courageous people were killed. Clergymen, or priests and pastors, were also victims of the Holocaust. These people were considered political prisoners and a special barracks was set up for them at Dachau. Most clergymen died of starvation or disease, although many were executed. In 1933, an anti-Nazi church attacked Nazi views, resulting in executions and imprisonment. Very few Clergymen survived the Holocaust. Political prisoners made up a significant amount of concentration camp inmates. Political prisoners included Socialists, Communists, Social Democrats, and trade union leaders. All political prisoners were forced to wear red badges. Dachau was a camp specifically for political prisoners. By 1933, twenty-seven thousand political prisoners were being held in concentration
They were considered a waste of time and money to support and he was determined to completely annihilate physically and mentally disabled people. He sought out people in mental hospitals and other institutions and started killing operations known as “euthanasia” or “Operation T4”, which was conducted in secrecy. This was also known as the “cleansing program”. Many T4 victims were killed within institutions and gas chambers, including about one hundred and eighty thousand disabled adults and five thousand disabled children. Hundreds of thousands of disabled people were sterilized. Even after Operation T4 ended, doctors were still encouraged to murder disabled people by starvation, poisoning, or lethal