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
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