Joseph Goebbels was Hitlers right hand man he believed in everything Hitler said. He was in charge of Nazi propaganda. He was arguably the 2nd most powerful person in the country. Holocaust was the genocide of about 6 million jews. The nazis had a systematic process killing of jews. There were about 9 million jews in Europe during ww2 so the nazis killed about 2/3's of the jews in Europe. In total there were about 11 million people total killed in the Holocaust. According Hitler jews, gypsies mentally/physicaly disabled people, slavic people, Poles, Homosexuals, Communists/Socialists, dark skinned people, mixed races, twins, Jehovahs witnesses. Gypsies were stereotyped because they used to steal a lot of stuff and kidnap people. Hitler thought Asians were inferior to Germans he just used Japan to help them out. Twins had a lot of testing done to them by German scientists because they were very interested in them. WASP: White, anglo-saxan, protestant person. Hitler viewed the US as a bastard race, even though we pwn. Hitler had breeding houses set up where blond haired blue eyed women and men could reproduce and have more blond hair blued eyed women. As soon as Hitler came to power he took away freedom of speech. Although the Jews had it worse they took away their rights to serve as a civil worker doctors teachers and so on. They were also forced to wear a yellow star of david.
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