2007-03-16 16:10:37 · 9 answers · asked by lime_chook 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
As many people have stated, homosexuals, and Rroma and Sinti (ethnically non-Rroma "Gypsies") were targets of genocide during the Holocaust. Rroma wore black triangles (later brown triangles), as did lesbians; gay and bisexual men wore pink triangles.
15k gay men were officially executed. I have no book resources for them, but you may want to check out the movie 'Bent,' as it is a fictional account (based on a stageplay, if memory serves) of gay men inside a concentration (labor) camp.
220k Rroma and others labeled as "Gypsies" were killed. Wikipedia says that proportionately Rroma suffered the worst of any group during the Holocaust, as between a quarter to half of their population was killed, and given that their numbers as a whole were much smaller than those of the Jewish population, that's probably not a false figure. For resources on Rroma and the WW2 genocide, start with Angus Fraser's books and Isabel Fonseca's 'Bury Me Standing.'
2007-03-16 21:04:04 · answer #1 · answered by Kate S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gypsies, homosexuals, Jews, the deformed, mental defectives, people who enjoyed various forms of music like swing and jazz, anyone who spoke out against the Nazi regime were simply shipped off to death camps and exterminated or worked to death in war plants like those that manufactured the V-1 and V-2 missiles.
2007-03-17 03:42:14 · answer #2 · answered by MMM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gypsies and homosexuals were sent to concentration camps for hard labor and eventual execution.
2007-03-16 23:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by historyfan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The entire gypsy population was murdered.
Gay people were also killed.
2007-03-16 23:16:18 · answer #4 · answered by Cammie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were sent to death camps indiscriminately. They persecuted them relentlessly.
2007-03-16 23:22:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
umm, hard labor or death. the first one usually led to the second anyway.
2007-03-16 23:14:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well death, for one.
they put them in the concentration camps and killed them the same as the jewish people.
2007-03-16 23:13:17 · answer #7 · answered by KJC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Death is the correct answer.
2007-03-16 23:31:53 · answer #8 · answered by staisil 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death, torture, absolute poverty, desperation..umm did I mention DEATH?
2007-03-17 00:11:53 · answer #9 · answered by Willow_Elf 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋