The Nazi Genocide of the Roma

Reassessment and Commemoration
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-923-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: War and Genocide

Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe. Detailed case studies of France, Austria, Romania, Croatia, Ukraine, and Russia generate a critical mass of evidence that indicates criminal intent on the part of the Nazi regime to destroy the Roma as a distinct group. Other chapters examine the failure of the West German State to deliver justice, the Romani collective memory of the genocide, and the current political and historical debates. As this revealing volume shows, however inconsistent or geographically limited, over time, the mass murder acquired a systematic character and came to include ever larger segments of the Romani population regardless of the social status of individual members of the community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss-Wendt, Anton

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Assimilation and Persecution: An Overview of Attitudes Toward Gypsies in France

Shannon L. Fogg

Chapter 2. Genocidal Trajectory: Persecution of Gypsies in Austria, 1938-1945

Florian Freund

Chapter 3. Ustaša Mass Violence Against Gypsies in Croatia, 1941-1942

Alexander Korb

Chapter 4. Ethnic Cleansing or “Crime Prevention”? Deportation of Romanian Roma

Vladimir Solonari

Chapter 5. Nazi Occupation Policies and the Mass Murder of the Roma in Ukraine

Mikhail Tyaglyy

Chapter 6. The Nazi Persecution of Roma in Northwestern Russia:The Operational Area of the Army Group North, 1941-1944

Martin Holler

Chapter 7. The Justice System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies

Gilad Margalit

Chapter 8. Disentangling the Hierarchy of Victimhood: Commemorating Sinti and Roma and Jews in Germany’s National Narrative

Nadine Blumer

Chapter 9. The Aftermath of the Roma Genocide From Implicit Memories to Commemoration

Slawomir Kapralski

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Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Weiss-Wendt, Anton
Anton Weiss-Wendt is Senior Lecturer in the research department at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (2009) and Small-Town Russia: Childhood Memories of the Final Soviet Decade (2010), and the editor of Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe (2010) and Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe, 1939-1945 (with Rory Yeomans, 2013).