Question

During WW II German official policy was developed to eliminate all Jews and all Gypsies, as well as actively eliminate homosexuals and those deemed mentally defective. As well as 6 million Jews it is generally accepted that the Nazi regime was responsible for a further how many deaths under these policies?

Answer 1

About 10 million
Figures of the dead as a direct result of the holocaust are variable but according to some estimates of the non-combatant lives lost, the approximate figures are: Ukrainians - 5.5 to 7 million; Jews (of all countries) - just under 6 million; Russian POWs - over 3.3 million; Russian civilians - over 2 million; Poles - 3 million; Yugoslavians - 1.5 million; Romany - 200,000 to 500,000 ; mentally/physically disabled - 70,000 to 250,000; homosexuals - tens of thousands; Spanish republicans - tens of thousands; Jehovah's Witnesses - 2,500 to 5,000 ; Boy and Girl Scouts, clergy, Czechs, deportees, Greeks, political prisoners, Serbs, trade unionists and similar - unknown. Assembled from figures quoted by Milton; Lukas 38-39, 232; Gilbert 824; Berenbaum 123; and Holocaust Internet information sites.