Christian Holocaust?

Question

A friend told me that aside from the 4-6million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis they also killed millions of Christians. As I understand it not allied forces in conflict. Can anyone cite a source or web site that can verify or debunk this claim?

Answer 1

If you consider Jehovah's Witnesses to be Christians, then there is all kinds of information on that.
Start here ...
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/VictJeho.htm

However, the "Christian Holocaust" term doesn't refer to Nazi Germany, rather the Ottoman Empire from the 1890s to the 1920's.

Look here ...
http://www.serfes.org/orthodox/memoryof.htm

Answer 2

So many died duing World War II. The polish people were largely treated as "slave labour" and they were mostly Roman Catholic. One woman who stood up to the Nazi's was Sophie Scholl. She died for printing leaflets against the nazi's and would not recant her writings. She, her brother and one other student were all beheaded the same day. Maximillan Kolbe, a Roman Catholic priest gave his life while imprisioned in a concentration camp so that a man with a family might live. Pope John Paul II made him a saint during his pontifficate. Catholic Priests along with Lutheran Ministers and other Christian leaders who spoke out against the regime or against the deportation of the Jews were also rounded up and sent to concentration camps where most died. The slaughter of Russian soldiers and civilians cannot be overlooked. Millions of the Orthodox faith died at the hands of the Nazi forces as an act of war.

Answer 3

Eight million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Eleven million people total were killed. Some of the other 3 million were Catholic priests, some were Roma, some were homosexual, and some were disabled persons of various ethnicities & spiritualities.

Answer 4

WW2 grow to be sixty-some years in the past. The Roman persecution of Christians grow to be just about 2 thousand. There are not a lot of human beings around who endure in strategies the Roman circumstances. There are nevertheless plenty who endure in strategies the WWII holocaust. additionally there are videos and somewhat some greater first-hand debts of greater moderen activities.

Answer 5

Your friend is sort of right. Millions of Christians were killed by the Nazis, but not because they were Christians, but because of other characteristics they had that the Nazis despised. The Nazis attempted to exterminate only a single "racial" group--the Jews. They also despised and were happy to kill Poles, Ukranians, other eastern Europeans they conquered, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled, mentally ill, and mentally impaired individuals, to name just a few categories of "state enemies." So, yes, many Christians who happened to fall into one of these categories, or who were political opponents of the Nazis, were killed.

Answer 6

Yes, in addition to the Jews the Nazis also killed homosexuals, Gypsies (aka the Roma), disabled people, Soviet POWs, Jehovah's Witnesses, political prisoners, and various people from occupied territories like the Poles.

In sheer numbers the Jews are the largest group followed by Soviet POWs and political prisoners.

This is fairly well-known but you can start with the impressively even-handed discussion at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Answer 7

The Nazis did not confine their murder to jews. They also targetted communists, social democrats, homosexuals,gypsies and the mentally disabled. These people are always forgetten when the Holocaust is mentioned but their deaths were just as horrible.

Answer 8

I don't .......... but I would l love to know.

But I would assume that it would not matter if you were a Christian or Jewish, it seems that they killed any and everybody.

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust#Freemasons_and_http
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/article_02.htm
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394665
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/holocaustcourse.html