'Asocials'

 were not a rigorously defined group, but could include Roma and Sinti (‘Gypsies’), the mentally ill, homosexuals, alcoholics and drug addicts, vagrants and beggars, pacifists, conscription resistors and prostitutes. ​

Nazi persecution of 'asocials' remembered in Berlin

the black triangle 'asocials' were made to wear in concentration camps This year the 'Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte' here in Berlin has been/are putting on events to do with the persecution of so-called 'asocials'.

'Biological outsiders'

Blacks during the Holocaust Era

After World War I, the Allies stripped Germany of its African colonies. The German military stationed in Africa, known as the Schutztruppen, as well as missionaries, colonial bureaucrats, and settlers, returned to Germany with racist attitudes. Separation of whites and blacks was mandated by the Reichstag (German parliament), which enacted a law against mixed marriages in the African colonies.

euthanasia

Background & Overview of the Nazi Euthanasia (T-4) Program

Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

roma and sinti

Sinti and Roma: Victims of the Nazi Era

Skip to main content Between 1933 and 1945, Sinti and Roma ("Gypsies") suffered greatly as victims of Nazi persecution. Building on long-held prejudices, the Nazi regime viewed Gypsies both as "asocials" (outside "normal" society) and as racial "inferiors" believed to threaten the biological purity and strength of the "superior Aryan" race.

Religous minorities

Jehovah's Witnesses: Victims of the Nazi Era

Skip to main content Jehovah's Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime. Actions against the religious group and its individual members spanned the Nazi years 1933 to 1945. Unlike Jews and Sinti and Roma ("Gypsies"), persecuted and killed by virtue of their birth, Jehovah's Witnesses had the opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by renouncing their religious beliefs.

Timeline of Events - Before 1933 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

World War I (1914-1918) devastated Europe and created new countries. The years that followed saw the continent struggle to recover from the death or injury of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, as well as catastrophic damage to property and industry.