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Approximately 500,000 Gypsies (officially
named, Roma or Sinti) were murdered in the death camps. These were
persecuted because they were a dark-skinned minority Hitler
considered inferior.
Eleven million people were murdered in the
death camps.
Over 6 million of Europe’s 8.6 million Jews
were murdered between 1936 and 1945.
Of Poland’s prewar Jewish population of 3.5
million, only 10 percent survived.
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Surviving Hitler, 136-137
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