Is there any estimates of how many millions of gays ,mentally retarded people?

Question

gipsys,disabled people ,insane people, non arian people, etc.were killed by hitlers people.during that horrible time when he was in power.not ones killed in war, just those who were killed to make way for a pure race of germans.and are there any monuments are memorials made to honour those peoples deaths?
Thank You

Answer 1

somewhere between 11 to 12 million were killed in the Holocaust. 6 million of those were people of Jewish faith, the rest were homosexuals, gypsies, disabled people, communists, catholic clergy ect. This number includes people in camps, along with people executed by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) on the eastern front.

There are a variety of monuments to honor these poor souls who were killed in the Holocaust, although not nearly as many as there are to people of Jewish faith. There are some other memorials out there that honor "the other" (for lack of a better word) victims of the Holocaust along with it's Jewish victims.

Most of the Museums out there such as the United States Holocaust Museum and the museum in Budapest (two of the largest Holocaust museums outside of Israel) at least mention "the other" victims in passing. To my knowledge, and I have researched this, there are only a handful of monuments out there for "the other"... again for lack of a better word.

There is a "gay" holocaust memorial in Berlin and Israel:
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?200...
http://www.glbtjews.org/article.php3?id_...

There are a few foundations for Gypsy victims of the Holocaust:
http://isurvived.org/2memorialdrives/4_g...
http://www.geocities.com/~patrin/holcaus...

There is a memorial to communist victims on Prague that was recently vandalized:
http://www.radio.cz/en/news/47263...

These are just a few that are out there. They do exist. To find more I'd recommend just surfing the web for a while. Check out the website for the United States Holocaust Museum... a really good website:

http://www.ushmm.org/



Sadly we have a tendency to look at the Holocaust only as a "Jewish tragedy," which it certainly was. The extent to which Jewish people suffered under the Nazis is intolerable. They faced probably the most discrimination in their daily lives... segregation from participation in public activities (before the true horrors of the Holocaust began at least...), forcible relocation, ect.

Something that many people do not know however, is that the original gas chambers were not built in death camps meant for Jewish people - they were built in vans, driven by the above mentioned Einsatzgruppen, meant to euthanize people with disabilities.

In short, the Holocaust was not just a Jewish tragedy, which I think you are pointing out in your question - although it was that too obviously. It was everyone's tragedy. It's victims for facing unspeakable horrors for things beyond their control, and it's perpetrators for allowing their minds to be distorted in to committing unspeakable acts.

The true way to memorialize these "other" victims is to remember that this indeed was a tragedy that they dealt with too. "Never again" should apply to everyone.

Answer 2

According to the latest statistics of 2006, 63% were ok and normal in their behaviors towards the public!

Answer 3

LOL where did u come up with that question? Anyways i don't think theres and estimate because theres probly to many