Jews and Roma were the only two groups slated for total annihilation by the Nazis.
That’s not to say other people weren’t persecuted under Nazism, but when it comes to other groups, not only were they generally spared the death camps, but there always exceptions made when it suited the Third Reich. There were disabled people who were never targeted (Goebbels being a prime example). Hitler only had Ernst Rohm (a high-ranking gay Nazi official) taken out because he thought he posed a threat to his leadership; prior to that point, he actually did everything he could to make sure other people didn’t discredit Rohm because of his gayness.
Other groups generally just had to denounce ideologies and declare loyalty to the Reich. Many refused and were targeted because of it, Jews and Roma? No such option.
If you were a gay or disabled or communist Jewish or Romani person, you had no option to be overlooked—because as a Jewish or Romani person, you were already on the docket for extermination.
Look, I’m mixed-race. I’m South Asian and Jewish. And sure, neo-Nazis definitely don’t love me for being Desi, but they’ll always hate me first and foremost for my Jewishness, because that is what Nazis do.
So don’t come at us with this “All Lives Matter” bullshit. When it comes to Nazism, the top targets have always been Jews and Roma.
Jews lost 1/3 of their total population in the Holocaust. Romani people lost up to a half of theirs.
“Ya ain’t special”?! Do you know how much Jews and Roma wish they hadn’t been ‘special’? Do you know what it would mean to us to have those millions of dead back? Neither of us have reached our world populations Pre-Holocaust. 70+ years later and there are still less of us in the world than their were in 1938. That’s what Nazism did to us. That’s what Nazism is to us—mass depletion on a global scale. And you don’t have the right or power to rewrite that fact.
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