Other+Victims+(In+Depth)

__What were the other victims of the Holocaust?__** Other victims of the Holocaust included Roma (gypsies), people with disabilities, homosexuals, and people of the Polish and Slavic race or culture.
 *  O ther V ictims of the H olocaust

__ Roma __ - The Roma were considered "work shy" and had supposedly inherited a yearning to participate in crime. Roma were among the first to be killed in the Holocaust genocide in the mobile gas vans. Many were shot and over fifty-thousand were killed.

__People With Disabilities__ - People with disabilities were thought to be a threat to the gene pool. They were seemed to have a problem with society, for they were also thought of as unable to work. Several thousands died - over one-hundred-eighty thousand.

__Homosexuals__ - Homosexuals could not work in the military. Their sexual behavior was thought of as immoral and a sense of corruption to the German society. Therefore, a lot were unable to work and were sent to the concentration camps for extermination. __People of the Polish and Slavic Race / Culture__ - Hitler considered these people racially inferior. So Hitler and his army started a policy of physical annihilation of the political, intellectual, and cultural people of Poland and the Soviet Union. Slavs were thought to become the slaves to the German Aryans.

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