Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Second-day Adventists, Homosexuals, residents of institutions for the mentally ill. By far the largest group was the Jews, but in terms of the proportion of the population executed, the Roma suffered as much.
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Two groups were: trade unionists and Jehovah's Witnesses.
The Nazis targeted specific religious or ethnic groups that were considered 'fake Germans'. Hitler's radical idea was that if he eliminated all of these groups 'polluting' the pure Germanic blood, the world would be a better place. Keep in mind that he believed Aryans were the best race on the Earth.
There were a lot of groups targeted by the Nazis in WW2 but here are the groups with the most deaths:Jews (over 6,000,000 killed)Poles (approx. 5.5 - 5.9 million and of these about 2.9 million Jews killed)Handicapped people were (200,000 - 250,000 killed)Roma Gypsies (approx. 220,000 dead)Hope it helps.
Other groups targeted by the Nazis for destruction included the Romani people, the disabled, political dissidents, homosexuals, and Slavic peoples. These groups were persecuted and murdered as part of the Nazis' efforts to create a "pure" Aryan society.
There were many groups targeted for persecution by the Nazis. But the group that was hardest targeted and suffered a greater proportion of deaths than even the Jews were the Gypsies.
The family was targeted and harassed in Nazi Germany because it was Jewish.
Russians, Slavs, Poles, Jews, Gypsies, the weak and the lame, the mentally challenged, Homosexuals, Blacks, and others.....
There were no religious resistance groups that fought against the Nazis. Leaders of most major religions not directly targeted by the Nazis were actually pro-Nazi, such as the Catholic Church and numerous Imams and Muftis in the Middle East and the Balkans. The Orthodox Church opposed the Nazis in principle (since they had defeated Greece and attacked Russia), but did not advocate resistance to the Nazis and did not defend the minorities attacked in the Holocaust. The resistance groups that did organize were nationalists, socialists, and partisans in any given occupied area.
Quite simply; they were not targeted in the Holocaust. These groups were targets of the Nazis and suffered great oppression. But the groups which were targeted in the Holocaust suffered much harsher conditions and oppression than most of those groups mentioned. Of the groups mentioned: Jehovah's witnesses, 'incureables', homosexuals, political dissidents, communists and liberals [communist liberal is an oxymoron] had most of those imprisoned survive and were given many times the amount of food that was given to those targeted in the Holocaust. Also they were all released from the concentration camps if they renounced their beliefs, where as those who were targeted in the Holocaust were there because of who they were, not what they did or what they believed in.
Primarily Jews, but other minorities were targeted by the Nazis.
Slavs and to some degree negroes. Depending on whether you consider them ethnic groups or religious groups: Jews, Roma. __________ Actually, the bit about Slavs needs qualifying. If they did the Nazis' bidding and were 'Western' in outlook and Roman Catholic, they were not persecuted. For example, Slovakia and Croatia were allies of Nazi Germany.