Victims Of The Holocaust
A Racial Myth
Racial Murders
Jews represented the primary target for Nazi Germany, but other minorities were also targeted. Soviet civilians and prisoners of war were also massacred, as well as Poles, Serbs, Freemasons, disabled people, homosexuals, Romani people, Jehova’s witnesses and even Spanish republicans. The ideology was to get rid of anyone not considered part of the supreme race.
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Millions of Soviet Union prisoners of war were simply executed on battlefields by Nazi forces. Some others were taken to different concentration camps, where they died under inhumane conditions or were massacred.
The occupation of Poland in World War 2 was extremely brutal, resulting in the murder of millions of ethnics. About 17% of the country’s population was killed during the Holocaust, with a primary focus on Jews.
The Holocaust affected more categories of people, including Romani people. Their genocide was ignored by researchers until the 1980s. Even today, numbers aren’t very clear, leaving plenty of room for further research.
People from all walks of life were killed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust, only because the Nazi regime tried to make room for the perfect race. Anyone who failed to meet the standards was brutally murdered.