The outrage of all witnesses virtually guaranteed a swift reprisal instead of the slow death perpetrated by the Nazis. That's definitely a benefit.
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What witnesses and what reprisal?
annihilate them (kill them)
because they did not contribute to society.
Jews, homosexualls, gypsies, mentally handicapped, and other "enemies" of the Nazis
It was confiscated by the Nazis and about 10,500 mentally and physically handicapped people were killed there. It was the first place where huge numbers of people were killed in gas chambers.
This is what we now call a propaganda technique. If you can convince a population that or any group of people that others are not people because of any particular characteristic, you can count on them to believe persecuting and killing them is the same as persecuting an animal. Useful for tyrants since the dawn of civilization.
Jews... and many others who were thought to have offended or threatened the Nazis, such as Romanys (gypsies) nd even the handicapped.
The Jews, Gypsies/Romani, gay people, Catholics, the handicapped, and Slavs.
The Jews, Gypsies/Romani, gay people, Catholics, the handicapped, and Slavs.
The Jews, Gypsies/Romani, gay people, Catholics, the handicapped, and Slavs.
Yes, the Nazi mass murders actually began about 1939 with handicapped and mentally defective people, to the Nazis "lives not worth living". Also fit for slaughter were any eastern Europeans or Slavic people, Gypsies especially, and homosexuals. Common criminals, political prisoners, prisoners of war, any Russian. The Nazis were remaking society, and it was to be a society free of all undesirables, from the Nazi point of view. The Nazis intended to create a new area for Germans to live in to the east of Germany, and the people already there....needed to go. They were only "untermenschen" (subhumans) anyway.
There were no 'real' beneficiaries though obviously, there were short-term benefits for the Nazis.
Hitler, who was obsessed with the 'Jewish Question'. In fact it was a problem entirely of his own making. He chose to create a problem by persecuting harmless people.As far as the actual organization of the Holocaust is concerned, the key figures were:HimmlerHeydrichGlobocnikEichmann