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Roma and Sinti
Roma and Sinti were subjected to racial classification, internment, deportation, forced labor, mass shooting and murder in camps. Historians estimate that at least 250,000 European Roma were murdered, with some estimates reaching about 500,000. Approximately 21,000 of the 23,000 Roma and Sinti deported to Auschwitz died there.
Disabled people and Nazi medicine
Nazi racial hygiene included forced sterilization and the centrally organized medical killing program later called Aktion T4. Approximately 250,000–300,000 institutionalized disabled people were murdered, including children. Camp doctors also conducted unethical experiments involving hypothermia, high altitude, infectious disease, sterilization, bone and muscle injury and twins.
Other persecuted groups
Around 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died in German custody. Approximately 1.8 million non-Jewish ethnic Poles were murdered. Political opponents, resistance members, Jehovah’s Witnesses and gay and bisexual men prosecuted under Paragraph 175 were also persecuted. The policies, aims, chronology and victim totals differed; presenting them distinctly avoids creating a false hierarchy or an inaccurate single category.
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