Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
15,3 (2001) 412-427
Keywords:
Genocide History 20th century
Abstract:
Describes the Nazi persecution of Gypsies in 1933-45, stressing the interplay between directives from above and initiatives from below. This persecution resulted in the annihilation of a great part of Europe's Gypsies. The same policy inconsistencies were characteristic for the early Nazi handling of both the "Jewish question" and the "Gypsy nuisance"; the process of the Nazi "solution" for both, in the later phase, may be compared in many aspects. However, the Gypsies never constituted the same kind of threat that Nazi ideologists saw in the Jews. Thus, Gypsies were annihilated by the Nazis less systematically than Jews, they became victims of the Einsatzgruppe mass executions in the USSR later than Jews, and no Gypsies were ever deported from occupied Denmark, Greece, Italy, and some other territories.
Note:
With comparisons to the Jewish "Final Solution".
DOI:
10.1093/hgs/15.3.412
URL:
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