Minorities

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  • T4 program

    Program dedicated to attacking what the Nazi government deemed as "defectives"
  • T4 program

    1. Sterilization of people with mental illness or severe medical/genetic issues
    2. Rounding up and euthanizing people with disabilities or "defects"
    3. Ended in 1941 due to public pressure
  • The T4 program was a test for the Holocaust
  • Holocaust

    Refers exclusively to the killing of Jewish individuals by the Nazi government
  • Groups targeted in the Holocaust

    • Black Germans (30,000 killed or sterilized)
    • Freemasons
    • Political prisoners
    • Homosexuals
    • Jehovah's Witnesses
    • Mentally disabled (360,000 sterilized, 250,000 killed)
    • Roma people (200,000-500,000 killed)
  • These groups were targeted and killed alongside Jewish people during the Holocaust, not just at the end
  • The exact numbers of those killed from these minority groups are difficult to determine
  • The second largest group of individuals killed in the Holocaust were the Roma people, with between 200,000 and 500,000 killed