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| | Online Holocaust Memorial |
 | | He was a master orator, and with all of Germany's mass media under the control of his propaganda chief, Dr Joseph Goebbels, he was able to persuade most Germans that he was their saviour—from the Depression, the Communists, the Versailles Treaty and the Jews. |
 | | Jews were primarily targeted, though many others died in the camps, as well: Communists, homosexuals, gypsies, the physically handicapped, the mentally retarded, Soviet prisoners of war, the Polish intelligentsia, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic and Protestant clergy, trade unionists, psychiatric patients, and common criminals all perished alongside one another in the camps. |
 | | Thousands of German socialists, communists and other opponents of the regime died in concentration camps, as did a large but unknown number of homosexual men. |
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