While
the 'final solution' meant that all Jews were victims, not all victims were
Jews. A wide range of victim groups suffered under the Nazis, and millions were
killed. These included anyone who did not fit in with the Nazis' idea of 'racial'
superiority, or was opposed to them. Communists, Soviet prisoners of War, Jehovah's
Witnesses, Poles (particularly intellectuals), members of the resistance, the
Roma and Sinti peoples (gypsies) and Homosexuals were all interned in concentration
camps, where slave labour, brutal conditions and the violence of the guards
meant that life expectancy would rarely be more than a few months.