- Introduction
Students are often unaware of the magnitude of the Nazis’ intent and their targeting of other groups for racial, ethnic, and political reasons.
- Nazi Ideology
“It is really important and appropriate ... that we remember that the primary victim of the Holocaust was European Jewry.”
- The Quest for Racial Purity
“The group that most closely paralled the experience of Jews in Germany.”
- The Racial Struggle for Europe
“The Nazi racial vision of the racial value of Poles was very low.”
- Nazi Ideology and the Persecution of Germans
“... is another group who would otherwise be racially acceptable Germans.”
- Conclusion
“You wouldn’t be wrong to say the Nazi state was a racist state.”
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Victims of the Nazi Era, 1933-1945
Five brochures about non-Jewish victims describe the experiences of: