Although the Jews were their primary targets - 6 million were murdered - the Nazis and their collaborators also persecuted other groups for racial or ideological reasons. Gypsies, the handicapped and Poles were targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.