"The following asocial elements are to be transferred from the prison to the Reichsfuehrer S.S. to be worked to death: persons under protective arrest, Jews, Gypsies, Russians, Ukrainians, Poles . . . Czechs, and Germans with sentences of more than eight years . . . quoted by Reichsfuehrer S. S. Himmler, on September 18, 1942".
             When author Ina R. Friedman wrote this book, by accumulating stories from people in various parts of Germany and the U. S., she unveiled hidden truths that not many people had ever had the opportunity to know, whether due to ignorance, sadness and sorrow, humiliation, secretes to be hidden, or just a desperate need to forget. There was a need for people to know the truth. In reading this book, we find out that sixty years after the Holocaust many people believe that only Jews were the victims of the Nazis. Today, more and more, the truth is being revealed in books like Friedman's and movies from producers like Speilburg. It is important for others to know not only the "harrowing" stories of the Jews persecution, but of the "others" that many never knew were being persecuted. In the book, THE OTHER VICTIMS, Friedman reveals true accounts of who these other victims were and why they were persecuted. Her reasoning behind her writings, "Like the young people whose stories are told in this book, each of us has a responsibility to safeguard the rights of others. If we do not, our own rights could vanish".
             It is interesting to learn that "Heil Hitler" was more than just a salute, it meant complete surrender to mind control. Hitler wanted complete control over Germany first and then his control would eventually extend out to other countries, other people until he had complete control of this world. As he began in Germany, he not only wanted to exterminate the Jewish people, but he identified those that were "unworthy of life"....