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Poles, Slavs, homosexuals, the anti-social, communists, socialists, trade unionists, Jehovah Witnesses, and the mentally and physically handicapped people whom were holding back the advancement of the Aryan�s executed, this was called �Aryanization�.
Knowing who was and who was not a Jew was one of the problems that faced the Germans at beginning of the Holocaust. You were considered a Jew if you had three or four Jewish grandparents who were Jews, even if you weren�t a part of the Jewish community. You were known as a Mishlinge or half-breed if you had one Jewish grandparent, and you were considered a half-Jew if you were part of the Jewish community or married to a Jew. All these people were known collectively as �non-Aryans.�
People often wonder why no one put a stop to the elimination of the Jewish people; but most people did not know what happened in Germany and the rest of Europe until the end of the war. If they did know about it they chose not to believe that it ...

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not open their homes and hearts to some of the Jewish families, Hitler�s dream would have been realised and the Jews of Europe and then perhaps the world, would have been wiped out.
One of the first steps of �cleansing� was the mass murder of many Jews who were falsely considered insane. They would disguise gas chambers as showers and tell the Jews that they were to take their clothes off and get ready to have a shower so that they could get cleaned up for when they saw the doctor. What they did not know was they would never get to see the doctor but that they would be gassed and sent to their death.
Hitler came up with a more efficient way of killing off the weak and the people ...

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