BY: GAVIN AND SEAN MINORITIES IN NAZI GERMANY

THE BEGINNING Germany and the east: Wanted lebensraum for his Aryan super race Forced Darwinism To remove inferior genes Germany and the west: Pacification, besides Minorities

GYPSIES Gypsies have been long prosecuted in Europe, but the Nazis judged them to be “ racially undesirable ” They did not fit into ‘well ordered society’ as they did not have regular work and were nomadic 500,000 gypsies were killed in total

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Believed that allegiance should be to God and only God Therefore an allegiance to Hitler was impossible Given a chance to convert to mainstream Christianity or else…. Identified by a purple triangle in concentration camps 10,000 were sent to concentration camps

MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED These handicapped people did not fit into the Nazi stereotype of the ‘pure Aryan’, that is physically fit to serve the Reich They were viewed as a burden to society as they were unable to work and drained resources from the state. Between 1939 and 1941 a program of euthanasia was ordered by the state which led to the murder of at least 70,000 people

POLES AND SOVIETS Persecution of Soviets (Communists) and Polish people Resent toward communism was a main reason for the persecution and killings of Soviets In all, around 2.5 million non Jewish Poles were killed in concentration camps and 2.8 million Soviet POWs were killed in German camps

HOMOSEXUALS Beginning of 1933, gay organizations were banned and literature concerning homosexuality were burned Gay people were persecuted because they did not conform to the “German societal norm” Between , an estimated 100,000 men were arrested as homosexuals

JEWS -Once in power, Hitler made life difficult for Jews by bringing in the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 which restricted Jewish civil rights and removed Jews from all positions of power , the SA initiated Kristallnacht - night of broken glass. In which several SA bands burned synagogues and Jewish properties all across Germany, any Jews that remained after the Kristallnacht were slowly moved into ghettos

JEWS CONTINUED… 1939 to first stage of extermination wasn’t against Jews, but against the disabled and handicapped, including children. Also Polish intellectuals were shot by the SS The start of the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Maidanek and Treblinka. Jews from Nazi occupied territories rounded up and brought to various camps in the east Either worked to death or killed through shooting, gassing or starving by the Schutzstaffel

WESTERN EUROPEANS German treatment of non-Eastern Europeans was much different The war in the east was much more vicious and unforgiving, against the Nazi Untermensch enemies and were seen inferior While in the west the war was much less vicious, other Europeans like the French, Dutch and British were seen as a respectable race that could be integrated into Nazi society

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