I recently found out something - could it be true?

Question

Hitler killed as many travellers/gypsies, as he did jews. But it was kept quiet about the travellers becuase of the fear people supporting him.

Answer 1

It wasn't kept particularly quiet.
Don't forget the early purge of the mentally ill too. Small scale gassing compared to the camps.

Answer 2

Not as many Romany People as Jewish people.
He did manage 6 million Jewish people.
What is widely unknown -- especially in the USA -- is that all together, there were 11 million people killed in the Death-Camps of the Third Reich.

Among them:
Deaf, blind, epileptic, and otherwise 'defective' people.
Communists.
Trade Unionists.
Muslim people.
Homosexual Men.
Moorish people (North African descent).
Romany people (aka 'Gypsies', 'Travellers', etc)
Social 'undesirables', such as developmentally delayed people, people with mental illnesses, people with visible deformities, lesbian women, rapists, murderers, thieves, and anyone who spoke up against the Reich.

No, the Jewish people do not own the Nazi Holocaust. Yes, they were the majority of people killed, by quite a bit.

Curiously, the Spanish Inquisition went after the VERY SAME groups (bar Communists -- there weren't any then -- and add 'heretics' and 'witches').

They way people talk in the States, you'd think the Nazis spared everybody except Jewish people. Zionist propaganda is well entrenched over there. I am allowed to say this! My father's brother was murdered at Auschwitz. I still think distorting the truth is wrong.

But if you want really interesting Second War stats, here's one: Josef ('The death of one man is a tragedy. The deaths of millions is a statistic.') Stalin just kept sending Soviet troops -- mostly untrained farmers with neither guns nor boots, against the Eastern Front. TWENTY million Soviet military, and probably 60,000,000 Soviet civillians died, in that war.

If it had not been for Stalin's complete disregard for the value of the lives of his country's own people, there is NO way the Allies could have won the Second War. They definitely do not mention THAT in most US schools. I don't know about here.

Answer 3

That certainly is true, another thing you may not have known was that throughout the war, certain allied POWs that the Wermarcht or Gestapo caught, were also sent to the death camps AFTER the Germans extracted as much information as they could out of them. He also killed homosexuals, comunists, liberals, German concentious objectors to the Nazi rule and/or the German war effort, the disabled, termanally ill and the lame. Almost anyone could have been sent there, if they didn't support the Nazis openly or even support the German war effort, anyone could have been sent there, despite the Nazi claims that these people were sent to "Re-education facilities" across Germany and Austria. Hitler was sucsessful enough in keeping this from the German public by destroying certain documents about just how many Gypsies and Travellers, but what is not known, is how many were actually killed.

Answer 4

Whilst the Jews get the publicity , the fact is that millions of non jews were killed in the camps including the pysically and mentally handicapped, freemasons, Gypsys, Jehovahs Witnesses, communists, anybody Hitler didnt like, spys , captured Commandoes, resistance fighters, homosexuals, free thinkers, blacks and many people of eastern european backgrounds whom Hitler called "Untermenschen" ( sub-Human),

there really wasnt an element of mankind his camps didnt touch, sadly only the Jews are seen as the victims whilst History forgets the rest.

Answer 5

The Nazis were responsible for the liquidation of the following- Jews, Gipsies, Homosexuals, Communists, Dissidents, Marquisards, Jehovah's Witnesses, Conscientious Objectors, Mentally or Physically Handicapped Individuals. Units of the Waffen SS killed scores of Arabs, thousands of Soviet civilians, any Soviet soldier they found as a prisoner, scores of British, French and Polish Prisoners of War, and any deserters from the Wehrmacht or Volkssturm. Division das Reich were responsible for the murder of almost every person in Oran sur Glene by machine-gunning the inhabitants, locking the survivors in a church and setting fire to it, then machine-gunning anyone who leapt from the windows to escape the flame. It's never been a secret, travellers were regarded as untermenschen. Although the jews lost six million as a result of Nazi action, the Poles suffered nearly as badly, and by far the greatest loss was sustained by the Soviets who lost nearly 20 million people as a direct result of the war.

Answer 6

Yes he killed many others besides Jews but Jews were far and away the most numerous of his victims. He did not kill "as many" as you put it. It simply wasn't possible, there were not as many gypsies or mental ill people or otherwise than Jews.

Answer 7

He certainly didn't kill as many gypsies as he did Jews, because there weren't as many gypsies in the first place.

At Auschwitz there were about 23,000 gypsies interned. By the end of the War 21,000 of them had been gassed.

Answer 8

Yes, Hitler did kill Gypsies as well as Jews, and also in large numbers. It isn't really kept quiet. The Jews were the greatest target, so they get the press, and deservedly so.

Answer 9

You've received a chorus of "yes"es, but allow me to add:

Jews were about 50% of those killed in the concentration camps. The other 50% were composed of gypsies, Catholics, Russians, Poles, gays, political adversaries, etc. HOWEVER, as a percentage of the total prewar population, Jews got the worst of it. For example Of every ten Jews living in Europe before WWII, roughly 7 were killed. Of every ten Gypsies living in Europe before WWI, roughly 4 were killed. Of every 10 Catholics living in Europe before World War II, roughly 2 were killed.

Answer 10

Yes its true he and his murderers had killed as many Gypsies and travellers as they could get there hands on, considering them as scum of a lower race , considering how low on the evolutionary scale they were that was quite a feat

Answer 11

Yes especially just prior to and at the start of the war, he had the gypsies put in camps, along with homosexuals Poles, Yugoslavs and mentally retarded adults and children. In fact any body who did not exactly match the Nazi idea of perfection.