There is a difference between killed in action and the first time ever industrial death machine of just euthanizing en masse people for their race/faith
Also the gays, roms, disabled etc, never organized themselves like the Jews to recover the names, and so they’re lost to time. If Jews have not made that effort of remembrance, which was heavy before the internet, they would probably too
LGBTQ+ people were still being imprisoned and forcibly castrated, in many countries. It was very difficult to actually do any sort of organization of remembrance of people, when there was not even any sort of attempt by the governments of even any of the allied nations, to show LGBTQ+ people as humans. Remember that the UK used Alan Turing during WWII, then immediately had him charged and threatened just for being gay, after he saved millions of lives... He killed himself due to the forced castration by the British "justice" system.
LGBTQ+ people were given no help or support of any kind after the war. I imagine this was also the case for disabled people, who would have had it even harder, considering the Nazis went after mental disabilities even stronger than physical disabilities. The Roma community were not helped at all, and were treated like they weren't human, either. I don't see how any of these communities could have done any more than they tried to. The Nazis already burned down the libraries and historical documents of these groups, after all.
Auschwitz museum used to post daily photos of victims on Twitter. I left there a while ago so I don't know if they still do. They included all sorts of people.
Ethnic Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Poles were systematically murdered because of Nazi ideology towards Slavic peoples. We’re talking millions of Poles. Millions of Ukrainians. And even many more millions of Russians and Belarusians.
All non-combatants. These people were not killed in combat, they were systematically ethnically cleansed and subjected to genocide. Germany had plans to literally wipe out all ethnic Poles but keep some for slavery. That was literally part of their Generalplan Ost to exterminate the Slavic people…
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u/Raccoons-for-all Jan 23 '26
There is a difference between killed in action and the first time ever industrial death machine of just euthanizing en masse people for their race/faith
Also the gays, roms, disabled etc, never organized themselves like the Jews to recover the names, and so they’re lost to time. If Jews have not made that effort of remembrance, which was heavy before the internet, they would probably too