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Victims | Murdered | Refs. |
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Jews | 6 million | [1] |
Soviet civilians | 4.5 million | [2] |
Soviet POWs | 3.3 million | [3][1] |
Poles | 1.8 million | [4][5][1] |
Serbs | More than 310,000 | [6][7] |
Disabled people | 270,000 | [8] |
Romani | 250,000–500,000 | [1][9] |
Freemasons | 80,000 | [10][11] |
Slovenes | 20,000–25,000 | [12] |
Homosexuals | 5,000–15,000 | [13] |
Spanish Republicans | 3,500 | [14] |
Jehovah's Witnesses | 1,700 | [1][15] |
Total | 17 million |
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Holocaust victims were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, disability or sexual orientation. The institutionalized practice by the Nazis of singling out and persecuting people resulted in the Holocaust, which began with legalized social discrimination against specific groups, involuntary hospitalization, euthanasia, and forced sterilization of persons considered physically or mentally unfit for society. The vast majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jews, Sinti-Roma peoples, and Slavs but victims also encompassed people identified as social outsiders in the Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals, and political enemies. Nazi persecution escalated during World War II and included: non-judicial incarceration, confiscation of property, forced labor, sexual slavery, death through overwork, human experimentation, undernourishment, and execution through a variety of methods. For specified groups like the Jews, genocide was the Nazis' primary goal.
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Holocaust was "the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish men, women and children by the Nazi regime and its collaborators".[1]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Documentation remains fragmentary, but today scholars of independent Poland believe that 1.8 to 1.9 million Polish civilians (non-Jews) were victims of German Occupation policies and the war. This approximate total includes Poles killed in executions or who died in prisons, forced labor, and concentration camps. It also includes an estimated 225,000 civilian victims of the 1944 Warsaw uprising, more than 50,000 civilians who died during the 1939 invasion and siege of Warsaw, and a relatively small but unknown number of civilians killed during the Allies' military campaign of 1944–45 to liberate Poland.
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