There
were other victims of Nazi terror. The disabled were targeted in a euthanasia
programme. They were considered to be racially inferior, and an economic burden.
Over 70,000 were murdered between 1939 and 1941. Slavic people were said by
the Nazis to be inferior to German Aryans. As such, they were not systematically
murdered, but millions of Poles died from executions and mistreatment. Many
were taken for use as slave labour.
Jehovah’s Witnesses were interned from an early stage of the camp system,
for refusing to acknowledge Hitler as the supreme leader. The Roma and Sinti
people - the Gypsies - were treated as subhuman by the Nazis. they were subject
to mass murder; approximately 500,000 were killed.
