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by djulius 3345 days ago
I thought the same as you.

The Wikipedia page on Holocaust victims (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims) has a list of the different groups targeted by the nazis. In addition to what other commenters have written there was also: freemasons, spanish republicans from the 36 revolution, soviet prisoner of wars, slovene and romani.

Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews.

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> Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews.

But also note that this was about 90% of polish jews, and something like 10-15% of ethnic poles.

(90% from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland; 10-15% back-of-the-envelope from that plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims#Poles, giving a non-Jewish population of a little over 30,000,000.)

You're off by about 1.2 million people with your last remark.
Why wasn't I taught this in school? I have to say, I've never seen a movie which explores this.