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In addition to the persecution and mass murder of European Jews, the Nazis targeted other groups they considered to be racially and biologically inferior including: Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, Poles, Russians, Soviet prisoners of war and blacks. Additional groups were persecuted on political, ideological and behavioral grounds, among them communists, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses and lesbians and gays.

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Additional viewing

Why the Jews: The History of Antisemitism is a 13-minute film that traces the history of antisemitism (hatred of Jews) from the early days of the Christian church to the Holocaust. 

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Discussion

Does hatred and prejudice inevitably lead to killing?

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Further Discussion

What are some of the things we can learn from a play about the Holocaust?

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