Question

List the groups that were also targeted for persecution by the Nazis.

Answer 1

Answer: Homosexuals, the disabled, gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Explanation:

These kinds of groups were considered by Nazis as the groups as a socio-racial problem so they didn't want any of them in their nation.

• Thousand of gypsies (Sinti and Roma) were sent to concentration camps.

• Those who were mentally and physically disabled are also being targeted because the Nazis always wanted powerful and healthy people.

• Homosexuals were targeted because they were considering as someones who was stoping the population growth.

• Jehovah’s Witnesses were considered by Nazis as easily judged groups of people and that they would be a problem because of that.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Gestapo (Secret State Police) is the symbol and main instrument of terror in the Third Reich. The Gestapo with particular cruelty persecuted and destroyed all those whom the Nazis considered their opponents: communists and social democrats, Jews and homosexuals, people who dared to doubt the invincibility of German weapons, those who listened to “enemy radio stations” and told political jokes.

Along with the fact that the Jews were classified by the Nazis as a priority “enemy,” the Nazi ideological racial concept aimed at the persecution, imprisonment and extermination of other groups of the population, including Roma, people with mental and physical disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and Afro-Germans. The Nazis also declared enemies and threats to the security political dissidents, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and so-called asocial personalities because they deliberately opposed the Nazi regime or because some aspects of their behavior did not fit into the Nazi understanding of social norms. Nazi sought to eliminate the dissenters in their own country and the so-called racial threats through constant internal cleansing of German society.

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