Many minority groups were targeted. People like homosexuals, gypsies, and etc. were targeted.
Second to the Jews, the Nazis also rounded up Romani (also known as Gypsies) -- they were classified as undesirable non-Aryans, and like Jews, they had faced centuries of marginalization in Europe. The Nazis also systematically murdered people with disability as a eugenic measure. Freemasons, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses witnesses were also subject to being rounded up and murdered. There are difficulties drawing lines between the Holocaust and civilian casualties in general. It is estimated that the Nazis killed as many as 5 million non-Jewish Russian civilians, 3 million Polish civilians, and many others. Was this part of the Holocaust, or should it be classified as a different war crime?
The only races targeted for complete destruction were the Jews and the 'gypsies'. Many other groups were also targeted, but either were not ethnic groups (races) or were not targeted for completed destruction.
One of the indicators of genocide and of war crimes is when civilians are targeted - this is not to say that other nations did not target civilians, just that as Germany lost the war, they would be tried for war crimes. Germany then specifically targeted women and children, an indication of a desire to destroy a group or set of people.
There were threee main powers.... Hitler was the leader of Germany, Mussolini was the leader of Italy and HiroHito was the leader of Japan --- Please don't treat World War 2 and the Holocaust as the same thing! The Holocaust took place during World War 2, but there was much more to World War 2 than the Holocaust. Japan, for example, was not involved in the Holocaust at all ...
Prejudice affected Jews during the Holocaust because even before the Holocaust it was all around the and during the Holocaust because the Nazi's and the SS enforced it heavily. Non-Jews were affected by it because it made them look at it with a whole new perspective.
Russians, Slavs, Poles, Jews, Gypsies, the weak and the lame, the mentally challenged, Homosexuals, Blacks, and others.....
The only races targeted for complete destruction were the Jews and the 'gypsies'. Many other groups were also targeted, but either were not ethnic groups (races) or were not targeted for completed destruction.
Holocaust "The Holocaust", which was Hitler's genocide primarily against European Jews. Other groups were also targeted for mass-murder, primarily based on ethnic or national origin.
Primarily Jews, but other minorities were targeted by the Nazis.
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Gypsies, freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, homoxexuals, the mentally deficient, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, and teh incurably ill
Animals were not targeted during the holocaust, so any that did die, did not die because of the holocaust. The avg number would be the amount that would have died in any other time period.
11 million people were killed during the Holocaust (1.1 million children).6 million of those victims were Jewish. Other groups targeted by the Nazis were Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and Gypsies. 11.
I did not think that someone would have to ask that. Anyway, the main victims had been Jews in Europe. About 5.6 to 6.3 million people had been murdered. Also the as "low-value races" labeled races Sinti and Roma had been victim. The murdering on other classes (political, handicapped) aren´t included in the term "Holocaust". Primarily, it was the Jews who were targeted during the holocaust.
During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Homosexuals.
The holocaust was the German operation for the extinction of the Jews and many other ethnic groups. I suggest you look at this: http://www.remember.org/educate/mtimeline.html Japan was not involved in the Holocaust.
The majority of people exterminated in the Holocaust were Jewish. Other persecuted groups include Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehova's Witnesses.
They were mainly treated as the same as the Jews were treated.