Non Jewish victims
by, Sarah Anderson
The Victims of the Holocaust
Of the 11 million people killed during the holocaust, six million were Polish citizens. Three million were Polish Jews and another three million were Polish Christians. Most of the remaining victims were from other countries including Hungary, Czecholovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Holland, France and even Germany. the jehovah witnesses stood up for their beliefs which caused hitler to think they were threats to his army so he made them prisoners and known as traitors. homosexuals wore pink triangles on their clothing and were tortured and executed.
the pink triangle
it was a symbol that homosexuals wore in concentration camps for humiliation and to know which ones were the homosexuals
purple triangle
the Jehovah witnesses wore a purple triangle symbol on their clothing because Hitler saw them as traitors and must be categorize
mixed children
After World War I, there were very few dark-skinned people of African lived in Germany. But, during World War I, black African soldiers were brought in by the French during the Allied occupation. Most of the Germans, who were very race conscious, despised the dark-skinned “invasion”. Some of these black soldiers married white German women that had children referred to as “Rhineland Bastards” or the “Black Disgrace”. In Mein Kampt, Hitler said he would eliminate all the children born of African-German descent because he considered them an “insult” to the German nation.
Hitler's Way or Death
Many husbands and wives of Jews in Germany were forced to choose between divorce or concentration camps. Hitler would not allow “interracial” marriages. Those that chose to remain married were punished by imprisonment in camps where many died. The Nazis decided that it was a waste of time and money to support the disabled. During Hitler’s “cleansing program”, thousands of people with various handicaps were deemed useless and simply put to death like dogs and cats. “The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore,” Hitler wrote. “In both cases, there is not the slightest moral duty regarding these offspring of a foreign race.” The Nazis set up a secret group, Commission Number 3, to organize the sterilization of these “Rhineland Bastards” to keep intact the purity of the Aryan race. In 1937, all local authorities in Germany were to submit a list of all the mulattos. Then, these children were taken from their homes or schools without parental permission and put before the commission. 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.