What types of people were being killed in the Holocaust?

Question

Like I know the Jews, and Gypsies, and the homosexuals, and the disabled people, but who else?

Is there a website I could go to, where it would share some detail about those groups, and about groups that people might not know about?

Of if anyone that answers could elaberate a bit?

Or just a list of groups of Holocaust victims would work too =]=]=]

Kay, thankss.

Answer 1

Millions of other minority members also perished in the Holocaust. About 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered (some estimates are as high as 800,000) — between a quarter to a half of their European population. Other groups deemed by the Nazis to be "racially inferior" or "undesirable" included Poles (6 million killed, of whom 3 million were Christian, and the rest Jewish), Serbs (estimates vary between 500,000 and 1.2 million killed, mostly by Croat Ustaše), around 500,000 Bosniaks[10], Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians in occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Africans, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, Eastern Christians, and Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed.

Answer 2

Everyone pretty much has it covered but there are some things not terribly well known about the Rromani (Gypsies).

Most Rromani could not write, in fact, the most part.

In the Camps they were either recorded with only a check mark or were not recorded at all.

The very, very conservative estimate is 500,000 (the lowest estimte I have every heard of was 200,000) exterminated. This is highly inaccurate due to the situation I described above. The real estimate is well over a million. Some say in the millionS.

There is no way to tell.

If you would like a little factoid, Josef Mengele had, in Aushwitz, what was called the "Gypsy Family Camp". What this little lovely was was a group used specifically for "medical" experiments.

I am certain you know what sort of things this involved.

If you are interested in some links about Rromani in the Holocaust, feel free to email me.

Edit: I see a group missed. The mentally disabled also went to the Camps. I have no clue as to the numbers of these. They were exterminated based upon not having "lives worth living".

Answer 3

I can't give you the statistics you're looking for, but here's an interesting story fro the Holocaust:

In 1982, Pope John Paul declared Reverend Maksymilian Kolbe a saint. The Catholic priest was a prisoner in one of Hitler's death camps in Poland. He was executed when he volunteered to give up his life in place of another prisoner, a stranger named Franciszek Gajowniczek, who had a wife and family in the prison. I'm not sure, but I think this gentleman survived to tell about it.

Answer 4

Russians/Communists, as one answer said Catholics: many priests stood up against the Nazi Regime. Despite some opinions. Nuns too, died.
A famous Lutheran Minister, forget his name--it's late & I'm tired.
Two items of interest: there are groups of Nazi heirs? and Holocaust survivors &/or their children who meet and talk and forgive and resolve. Saw story two years ago on a CNN or History Channel Special. Maybe there is an archive.
A quote I like: They came for the Jews & I didn't stand up for them. They came for the Homosexuals and I didn't stand up for them. They came for the Gyspsies and. . . (not quoting exactly.) They came for me, and, there was no one left.

Answer 5

Look up Aryan race, which Hitler thought was the perfect race. Anything that wasn't Aryan was persecuated during the Holocaust.

Answer 6

It would be easier to answer what types were not killed in the Holocaust. The answer is blond haired blue eyed Germans, and and a handful of others lucky enough to escape notice or slip under the cracks.

Answer 7

90% were Jewish....

the other 10% included:
Polish
Catholics
Serbs
Bosniaks
Soviet POWs
Africans
Jehovah's Witnesses
Communists
Freemasons
Protestant clergy

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust

Answer 8

There were those who opposed the government as well
google holocaust minorities

Answer 9

I visited the holocaust museum in michigan, maybe they have a website.

Answer 10

I found a website:
http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/people/victims.htm
Hope that helps.