The Holocaust victims we don’t talk about

Which group lost half of its members at the hands of the Nazis?

Auschwitz | Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash

Hitler had his eyes set on the “Jewish Problem” but that was far from the only “problem” he tackled via mass murder. He was, truth be told, in the grips of the Superiority Problem — where you want to feel superior to everyone else and work hard to figure out what specifically makes everyone else inferior to you.

Germany had, for decades if not centuries, nurtured its hostility towards the Jewish population, so when Hitler came into power they became the first and most obvious target.

Disabled people were an immediate clash with the robotized ideal of the Aryan Übermensch — so off they went, too. Gay people, who to this day are still being vilified as “deviants,” didn’t enjoy much acceptance under the Nazi regime either.

Hitler’s big dreams were cut short but had they become a reality, he would have expanded further East and created Lebensraum (room for life, ironically) for his growing, hopeful Aryan race. And the people who lived East? A…