I heard that many Catholic priests and Polish Christians were killed in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
I know that 6 million Jews were killed.
What was the percentage of non-Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust?
2006-12-11 06:07:36 · 4 answers · asked by FERNANDO 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Although estimates vary, the most widely accepted total is in the range of 10-11 million, so about 40% of Holocaust victims were non-Jews.
2006-12-11 06:17:54 · answer #1 · answered by Dorian V. 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Current research estimates about 11 million people were directly imprisoned/murdered by the Nazi regime. So about 1/2 were non-Jews. Note that includes all ethnic and religous backgrounds. No one was specifically singled out quite like the European Jewish community, well maybe the Gypsies.
Note also, that the USSR murdered 12-14 million of its own people during the "War Communism" and purges before the Second World War.
2006-12-11 22:01:19 · answer #2 · answered by jim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The second largest group were Soviet POW's, at about 4 million.
2006-12-14 00:30:14 · answer #3 · answered by Captain Hammer 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Between 1% and 5%. There were also gypsies, homosexuals, retarded (or mentally ill) people, as well as Christians.
2006-12-11 14:17:52 · answer #4 · answered by X M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋