Other Victims Of The Holocaust

Sinti & Roma• The Nazi regime viewed Gypsies both as "asocials" (outside "normal" society) and as racial "inferiors" believed to threaten the biological purity and strength of the "superior Aryan" race.

• During World War II, the Nazis and their collaborators killed tens of thousands of Sinti and Roma men, women, and children.

• Even though Gypsies enjoyed full and equal rights of citizenship under Article 109 of the Weimar Constitution

• Made anti-Gypsy laws, (anti-everything except Aryans laws) so that Aryans were always at the top, and Jews (other races) were ranked down

Poles

Homosexuals • “In 1935 the Nazi regime revised

Paragraph 175 of the German criminal code to make illegal a very broad range of behavior between men. ”

• Paragraph 175:: “A male who commits lewd and lascivious acts with another male or permits himself to be so abused for lewd and lascivious acts, shall be punished by imprisonment. In a case of a participant under 21 years of age at the time of the commission of the act, the court may, in especially slight cases, refrain from punishment.”

Rudolf Brazda

Jehovah’s Witnesses

African Americans• After World War I, the Allies

stripped Germany of its African colonies.

• Separation of whites and blacks was mandated by the Reichstag (German parliament).

• Racial Discrimination prohibited them from seeking jobs

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