Today it is immigrants. But if we look at history, we see that these purges never stop at one scapegoated demographic.
Fascists always need an enemy, a target, to retain their power.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Hitler’s regime went after not only Jewish adults, but also (and please correct me in Comments if some of this terminology is incorrect, outdated, harmful or offensive):
Roma and Sinti
Adults and children with disabilities (physical and mental, neurodivergents included)
Poles and other Slavic peoples
Soviet prisoners of war
Homosexual men
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Political opponents (e.g., Communists, Social Democrats)
Trade unionists
Freemasons
Black Germans
Clergy and religious dissenters
People labeled “asocials” (e.g., vagrants, homeless)
Habitual criminals and others deemed “undesirable”
Jewish children
It’s time to take this seriously.
Source of Data: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Holocaust Encyclopedia, Yad Vashem (The World Holocaust Remembrance Center), Encyclopedia Britannica, entries on Nazism and the Holocaust
Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich trilogy, German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) historical materials.
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