(H/B) THE NAZI GENOCIDES OF THE ROMA

Παρουσίαση

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. (From the publisher)

"The Nazi Genocide of the Roma brings together a valuable array of case studies that successfully challenge historical arguments minimizing the genocide of the Roma under the Nazis. The contributing scholars have shown not only how ethnicity informed criminality, but also how ambiguous policy against the Roma should not negate genocidal intent. This volume is a critical contribution to the field and should be required reading for any course on the Holocaust." - History: Review of New Books

"One does not usually praise the introduction to a collection of essays, whose principal function is to provide thematic continuity to a diverse body of works. But in this particular case Weiss-Wendt's lengthy introduction goes beyond the norm, providing not only continuity but also giving the reader a very scholarly, in-depth overview of the evolution of Roma Holocaust studies... It is this introduction of fresh perspectives and new evidence that makes this book so important. Roma Holocaust studies has long suffered from a dearth of concrete evidence that more fully details the fate of this understudied group. Weiss-Wendt helps to fill this void by opening new pathways of research and discussion for this important dimension of the Holocaust." - The Russian Review

Περιεχόμενα

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. Ustasa 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
S?awomir Kapralski
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index