Almost six million Jews in Europe perished in the holocaust

But, more than five million other innocent citizens - men women and children were also persecuted, tortured, tattooed and killed.


Among the earliest victims of discrimination and persecution in Nazi Germany were political opponents.
Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government.
During the first year, the camp held about 4,800 prisoners; initially primarily German Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, and other political opponents of the Nazi regime
The Nazis also persecuted authors and artists whose works they considered subversive


On August 22, 1939, a few days before the official start of World War II, Hitler authorized his commanders, with these infamous words, to kill "without pity or mercy, all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space [lebensraum] we need".
Hundreds of Polish community leaders, mayors, local officials, priests, teachers, lawyers, judges, senators, doctors were executed in public.
Much of the rest of the so-called Intelligentsia, the Polish leading class, was sent to concentration camps where they later died
Non-Jews of Polish descent suffered over 100,000 deaths at Auschwitz. The Germans forcibly deported approximately 2,000,000 Polish Gentiles into slave labor for the Third Reich

Because Hitler's plan for a great Master Race had no room for any homosexuals, many males from all nations, including Germany, were persecuted, tortured and executed
Between 5,000 to 15,000 homosexuals died in concentration camps during the holocaust.
Read The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger

The Nazis decided that it was a waste of time and money to support the handicapped. During Hitler's "cleansing program", thousands of people with various disabilities were deemed useless and simply put to death
Read Forgotten Crimes published by Disability rights Advocates

The Nazis believed that both the Jews and Gypsies were racially inferior and degenerate and therefore worthless. Like the Jews, the Gypsies were also moved into special areas set up by the Nazis. Half a million Gypsies, almost the entire Eastern European Gypsy population, was wiped out during the Holocaust.
Read The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies by Guenter Lewy

During World War I, black African soldiers were brought in by the French during the Allied occupation.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that he would eliminate all the children born of African-German descent because he considered them an "insult" to the German nation. Once a child was decided to be of black descent, the child was taken immediately to a hospital and sterilized. About 400 children were medically sterilized -- many times without their parents' knowledge
Read Destined to Witness : Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany By Hans J. Massaquoi


Jehovah Witnesses were forced to wear purple armbands and thousands were imprisoned as "dangerous" traitors because they refused to take a pledge of loyalty to Hitler
Nearly 10,000 Jehovah's Witnesses imprisoned and at least 2,000 admitted to Nazi concentration camps of which at least half were murdered, over 250 by beheading.
Read
Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
by Simone Arnold Liebster


I have read posts here villifying Polish workers in the UK, condemning homosexuals and describing people in receipt of disability allowance as 'spongers' and worse

Never forget.........