Introduction:
Although Nazi leaders undeniably viewed the total annihilation of Jewry, or what they called the “Final Solution” to the “Jewish Problem,” as their primary goal, they also persecuted and murdered members of other victim groups. Below are links to educational pages regarding these other genocides that were perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators.
General Information:
Readings
- Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution
- ‘Remember the 11 million’? Why an inflated victims tally irks Holocaust historians
- Who Were the Victims?
- "Enemies of the State"
- Non-Jewish Victims of Persecution in Germany
- Victims of the Nazi Era: Nazi Racial Ideology
Roma and Sinti (Porajmos):
Readings
- Persecution of Roma (Gypsies) in Prewar Germany, 1933-1939
- Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 1939-1945
- Targeting the Sinti and Roma
- What is antigypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination?
Audiovisual
Poles:
Readings
Audiovisual
Mentally and/or Physically Infirm (T-4 Program):
Readings
- The Murder of People with Disabilities
- Final Solutions: Murderous Racial Hygiene, 1939-1945
- Euthanasia Program
- "Unworthy to Live"
- Protesting Medical Killing
Audiovisual
- Caring Corrupted - The Killing Nurses of the Third Reich
- Disability Awareness Month: The Nazis' Nameless Victims
Homosexual Men:
Readings
- Isolating Homosexuals
- Gay Men Under the Nazi Regime
- Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945
- Homosexuality in the Third Reich
Audiovisual
- Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's documentary film about the targeting of gays, trailer; full film Paragraph 175
- Pride Month: The Nazi Persecution of Gay People
- Documenting Nazi Persecution of Gays: Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl Collection
Jehovah's Witnesses:
Readings
- Nazi Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Nazi Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses - ID Card/Oral History
Audiovisual
- The Nazi Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses: The Kusserow Collection
- What Did the Faith Community Stand For? Doctrines and Deeds in Nazi Europe
