National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria
By: Erika Thurner ; edited and translated by Gilya Gerda Schmidt ; with a foreword by Michael Berenbaum
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Austria; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Austria; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities; National socialism
Description: Originally published in German, Erika Thurner's National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria is the ground-breaking study of Nazi policy toward Gypsies during the Third Reich. As noted in the foreword, although Jews were the major target of the Nazis, others were also marked for extermination. Indeed, of the groups targeted by the Nazis, only Jews and Gypsies were killed indiscriminately and tribally, that is, by the gassing of entire family groups of men, women, and children.

Of the eleven thousand Gypsies living in Austria at the start of the war, only three thousand survived Nazi persecution. In the first English translation of this important work, Gilya Gerda Schmidt makes available Thurner's investigation of Camps Salzburg and Lackenbach, the two central areas of Gypsy persecution in Austria.

This English translation has also been expanded, with a new study of Camp Salzburg, an updated bibliography, and numerous photographs, which were not included in the German edition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Editor/translator's introduction; title: Author's introduction to the American edition; title: Author's introduction to the first edition; title: Abbreviations; title: Comments on the state of the literature and sources; title: Ideological foundations and legal ordinances regarding the persecution of Gypsies; title: The situation of the Gypsies in Salzburg before 1939 and Gypsy camp(s) Salzburg (1939-1943); title: Salzburg-Maxglan/Leopoldskron or Salzburg-Rennbahn; title: Discrimination and persecution of the Burgenland Gypsies; title: Camp Lackenbach; title: Gypsy transports from Austria to Lodz and Chelmno; title: Gypsies as subjects of medical experiments; title: Concluding remarks; title: Appendix; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.