The Nazi persecution of the gypsies
By: Guenter Lewy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Romanies -- Nazi persecution; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities; Romanies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The prewar years: a three-track policy. Track 1: Harassment stepped up ; Track 2: Crime prevention ; Track 3: Confronting an "alien race" ; The special case of the Austrian gypsies; title: II. A tightened net (1939-1942). "Security measures" and expulsions ; Creating social outcasts ; Detention and deportation from the Ostmark (Austria) ; The killing of "spies" and hostages in German-occupied Europe; title: III. A community destroyed (1943-1945). Deportation to Auschwitz ; Life and death in the gypsy family camp of Auschwitz ; Gypsies in other concentration camps ; Gypsies exempted from deportation; title: IV. After the disaster. Victims and perpetrators ; Conclusion The course of persecution assessed.