Holocaust;Where the Jews the only people targeted by Nazi Germany?

Question

This is for a project I am doing for class.It is 5-10 page report.God so much but oh well.I need help!! Please.......

Answer 1

No. Anyone who did not conform to the ideal Germanic/Nordic type was a victim or potential victim.
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Answer 2

Annakay...anyone who did not meet herr hitler's definition of Aryan purity was a target. This included, in his own country, Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, anyone with a mental disorder of any sort, (one of his own relatives was relegated to a 'hospital' where she died), and anyone else he had a disagreement with. Then you have to cast your net out further to the countries he invaded. In western Europe it was primarily the Jews but in eastern Europe it was pretty much anybody. People of Slav descent, Russians, Ukrainians, pretty much all of the population was at risk, (You see they were in no way Aryan). On the whole anyone who didn't meet his idiotic standards of 'racial purity' were fair game. We will probably never know how many citizens of the former Soviet Union were sent to the chambers because the government in Moscow were so secretive. But the figures I have heard on the history channel and read in other historic accounts place it at over 6 million. And that figure doesn't even begin to account for the Soviet soldiers slaughtered on the battlefields. I hope this helps somewhat, I wish I could point you to some websites but truth be told I haven't really researched it. What I have given you comes from a public school education when they actually taught something and reading about WWII in later years, (It's always good to know what your brothers in arms did in the past. Good luck with the paper.

Answer 3

Don't forget the writers, intellectuals, the "culturally elite," the Poles, the Russians, the Brits, etc.

"During World War II, millions of Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Poles, other Eastern Europeans, and people of other nationalities and religions were forced to work under inhuman conditions in Nazi industry as slave laborers. Many did not survive, and became part of the Nazi Holocaust (a.k.a. the Shoah; the Devouring). "-- from http://www.religioustolerance.org/fin_nazi.htm

Answer 4

No, they were the major target but people with disabilities, gay people, German people who did not conform or support the Nazi ideology, were also targets. Many Germans ended up in concentration camps for opposing the Nazi ideology, e.g. people who refused to wear the Nazi uniform, German citizens who allowed prisoners of war to sit at the same dinner table as them, they were all victims of the Nazi regime.

Answer 5

First of all, the term "Holocaust" refers to the annihilation of an entire group of people.The term is usually used for jews only, as they are probably the only group of people the nazis tried to completely annihilate.
Other people that were deliberately killed included (mentally) handicapped, members of resistance groups, political commissars of the soviet red army and deserting soldiers.
People that were imprisoned but not deliberately killed (which does not rule out singular executions, starving them or working them to death) included homosexuals, members of certain religions, criminals, war prisoners, Sinti and Roma (=gypsies), people from slavian countries and communists.

Answer 6

Nope. Catholics were also targeted because they stood up for the Jews. The Pope actually took several into his house to save them. Greeks were also targeted. Basically, anyone who wasn't whatever religion Hitler was, or wasn't blond-haired blue-eyed, or wasn't a part of the true Aryan race.

Answer 7

Jews were the majority of the people targeted, but other people were targeted as well. Everyone from gypsies to the disabled to non believers or rebellions.

Answer 8

No, - indeed, - they were NOT!

As WELL as the Jews, - GYPSIES, - all NON-ARYANS, - the DISABLED, (which WOULD have included ME), - and HOMOSEXUALS, (which DOESN'T include me), and all RUSSIAN prisoners, - irrespective of WHAT they had (or HAD NOT), DONE, - were "TARGETTED" for "LIQUIDATION", as a way of "PURIFYING" the "MASTER RACE"!

Answer 9

No, also homosexuals, gypsies, and mentally deficeint people. Jews were the "favorite" targets so to speak.

Answer 10

Not only the Jews, although they were the largest group. European Gypsies were also a target.