During the tragic times of the German Holocaust, many innocent people were brutally murdered. Jews were not the only victims during this dark period. Roma (Gypsies), Poles and other Slavs, the mentally and/or physically disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Afro-German children, priests and pastors, and many other diverse groups have all been victims of persecution and assassination by the Nazis for various reasons. .According to A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust, the nomads of northwest India, also known as gypsies, were included in the implementation of Hitler's racial laws. They were deprived of their civil rights, deported to ghettos, and then taken to concentration camps to be killed (“Victims”). Roma Gypsies were singled out for total annihilation, like Jews, because of their race. Germans believe that Gypsies were racially inferior and degenerate, therefore worthless to the state [“non-Jews”]. In addition to being sent to concentration camps and ghettos, many Gypsies in Russia, Poland and the Balkans were shot by the Einsatzgruppen, Nazi Germany's paramilitary death squads ("Victims") . Another group of people who were primarily targeted by the Nazis were Christian Poles and other Slavs, primarily from Ukraine and Belarus. According to A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust, the Nazis viewed the Slavs as "Untermenschen, or subhuman, and nothing more than obstacles to gaining the territory necessary for the superior German race." [“Victims”]. The main reason for almost all of Hitler's victims was the Germans' belief in racial superiority. Millions of Slavs were deported to Germany for forced labor while the intelligentsia were imprisoned in concentration camps or publicly executed ("Victims"). These devastating times have changed the lives of many millions of people. Approximately eleven million people were killed as a result of the Nazi genocidal policies, belonging to many different races and religions. Not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Poles and Slavs, the mentally and physically disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Afro-German children, religious leaders and many other small groups were terribly affected and destroyed during this dark period. Terese P. “The Holocaust: The Non-Jewish Victims.” Non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Israeli American Cooperative Enterprise, 2014. Web. May 16, 2014. “Teacher’s Guide for Holocaust Victims.” Victims. Florida Center for Instructional Technology, July 14, 2009. Web. May 16 2014.