Prisoners Of The Holocaust
The Un-Desirables
Child Euthanasia Centers
-Euthanasia- means good death in german and this form of killing was the first form of "projects" the nazis party came up with. In this way the nazis's would take chilrderen from there homes to specail hospitals or schools set up with all the "equitment"[gass chambers, ect.] they needed to fix the child. They said that they were taking them to some where that they would get the help that they need and that the would be better soon and could go home but end up killing them anyways withou telling the parents just to gane the money the parents would pay for the childs say at the hospitals or schools the nazis would put them in. this was a huge amout of there income and how they stayed on top in the war.
^^one of the buses they used to chransport the victomes [they painted the windows so no one could see inside]
pic by — Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden
Classification system
During hitlers time the nazis created a system that made sure they new what the prisoner was in there for. It was different for each of them the homosexuals had a pink triangle, the Roma had brown/black triangle, criminals had green ones, as for any political prisoners had red ones ( people that when's agents him but didn't fit into the other catigores like religious leaders) and Jehovah witnesses had purple. There were others that were inslaved like the poles. The Germans thought that they were inferior to them so put them to "Good use" and that's how they kept there factorys runningand helped them stay strong durning all the wars.
Killing the impaired
Oct.1939 hitler gave the ok for the organization of advanced euthanasias. Now it's not just children its all handicaped people over Europe. They were labeled not pure enough for the German or "master" race. So Hitler got all the information on the handicapped people from the doctors that specshlized in taking care of these people and used it to get info on there location (homes) and take them from there familys. The nazi people put them under the category of useless so once they were taken all you could wish for was a fast death. Most people were drugged, enjected, and gassed with deadly poison some just starved and died off that way. From 1940-1945 over 200,000 handicaped people died inside the euthanasia centers.
victims of nazi persecution
when you think of the holocaust you think of jews and how much they suffred, but its so much more than that. There were so many others that were sent to camps and killed because they weren't pure enough to be a german. Roma (gypsie), black or any diffrent colored german, jehovah witness, homosexuals, slavic, political men/women that didnt agree with hitler, criminals, and phisical/mental people who were concitered unfit and non fixable ( even tho he put them is hospitals and schools to "fix" them, they really just need the money that the familys would pay to help them get better thats how they stayed on top of the war for so long). some were taken to help in factores and work places and were treated like slaves when others were taken just to be killed off.
the number of people killed during the holocaust
- homosexuals -50,000 men were taken to prison and around 15,000 of them were taken to camps
- roma -20,000
- political prisoners -
- jehovah witness -around 2,000-25,000 were sent to camps
- polish- Its estimated that the Germans killed at least 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish people
- people with disorders -200,000
these are the number of people that were lost. all of these inacent people died because of one man and his thirst for power. all of this happened because hitler wanted to pureify there nation and this one goal was taken to extrem meures and there is a permint scar in history from what him and his followers did.
La Documentation Francaise
Soviet prisoner in the ukrainian war front
~all this information came from ushmm.org~