Source A Children from Eastern Europe detained in Stara Gradiška concentration camp in 1942 as part of the Nazi ethnic cleansing programme
The terrible persecution and mass murder of the Jewish people by the Nazi regime is well known. As many as 6 million Jews may have died in the Holocaust between 1941 and 1945 with countless others killed or forced to flee Germany in the years before the war.
However, less is known about other minority groups who found themselves attacked by the Nazis. Some were targeted, like the Jews, because of racist ideas. Others were thought to be a social problem. Whatever the reason, the Nazis tried to destroy their cultures due to twisted interpretations of science.
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