Treatment of other minority groups in Nazi Germany

• • Mentally ill and physically disabled - by 1939 the regime authorised euthanasia for what they regarded as an 'unproductive burden'.
  • Homosexuals - many were sent to concentration camps and were subject to particularly brutal treatment from guards.
  • Jehovah's Witnesses - uncompromising hostility to the Nazi state. Refused to pledge loyalty to Hitler or participate in Nazi parades or accept conscription.
• • Mentally ill and physically disabled - seen as biological outsiders and a threat to the Aryan race. Faced compulsory sterilisation.
  • Roman and Sinti gypsies - some were experimented on in camps and many were killed during the Holocaust.
  • Homosexuals - 1933 purge of homosexual organisations and literature - clubs closed down and gay publicatipns outlawed.