JWST 240 Lecture 22: Lecture 22 - Non-Jewish Victims
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They were deemed racially different and this mainly pertained to jews and the roma population and blacks. Or based on their lifestyle and beliefs which pertains mainly to homosexuals and jehovah"s witnesses. The largest group was based in romania and the ussr and. They originally came from india and around the time of their arrival, they adopted christianity but for centuries they were perceived as "others" and often as a muslim threat. There were various sets of prejudice that preceded nazis by centuries. They were seen often as unsanitary, as those who begged for money, who practiced magic, etc. The prejudice had legal implications, they were discriminated legally across europe but there was also contempt exhibited by various societies and individuals across europe. In the german case, there was a lot of discrimination already in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century (before the nazi period)
