| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- After the disaster. Victims and perpetrators ; Conclusion: the course of persecution assessed |
| Summary |
Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlars, and fortune-tellers, the gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideals of social order, hard work and racial purity. They were branded as "asocials," harassed, and eventually herded into concentration camps where many thousands were killed.; In this work, the author draws upon thousands of documents from German and Austrian archives to provide a comprehensive study of the fate of the gypsies under the Nazi regime. The author traces the escalating vilification of the gypsies as the Nazis instigated a widespread crackdown on the "work-shy" and "itinerants." But he also shows that Nazi policy towards gypsies was confused and changeable |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Romani Genocide, 1939-1945
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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Romanies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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Atrocities
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Romanies
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Drittes Reich
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Politische Verfolgung
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Vervolgingen.
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Zigeuners.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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Romanies -- History.
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Romanies -- Nazi persecution.
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Persecution -- Europe -- History.
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Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Atrocités.
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Tsiganes -- Allemagne -- 1900-1945.
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Tsiganes -- Persécutions.
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Tsiganes -- Extermination (1941-1945)
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Germany
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Deutschland
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Zigeuner.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98052545 |
| ISBN |
9780198029045 |
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0198029047 |
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1423760786 |
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9781423760788 |
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0195125568 |
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9780195125566 |
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1280471700 |
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9781280471704 |
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9786610471706 |
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6610471703 |
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9781602563254 |
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160256325X |
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