An estimated 5.5 million other Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, mental defects, socialists, communists, and any other groups that did not fit into his vision of the master race were murdered in the same concentration camps in the same manor as the Jews. ...
What Hitler did to accomplish this was he created common enemies (Jews, Communists, Liberals, Pacifists, free masons, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, etc.) and made the people feel like they where better then these people, but he also made them fear full of them almost like an infection or disease. ...
It was also never clear to me that aside from the Holocaust being the systematic attempt to exterminate the Jewish people, Hitler also wanted to exterminate "Communists, Social Democrats, liberals-and so-called antisocial elements-vagrants, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and others....
(Telles 51) In addition, thousands of political and religious dissidents such as communists, socialists, trade unionists, and Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted for their beliefs and behavior and many of these individuals died as a result of maltreatment. ...
