During the course of Nazi Germany, various minority groups fell victim to the madness of the Nazis. In Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf Hitler explained how he believed that the German people were the true Aryan race and that their purity and superiority had to be maintained at all costs by expelling or eliminating those who had no place in the master race. The persecution of those who did not fit Hitler’s ideal Aryan master race began soon after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. They included Jews, tramps, alcoholics, homeless and beggars, homosexuals, gypsies, the Jehovah Witnesses and the disabled.
These groups of people were regarded as inferiors and were