The forgotten Holocaust
Loading ... The forgotten Holocaust (The slaughter of Roma during the Second World War)
The Second World War led to the Roma people the greatest tragedy in their already troubled history. The Roma call "Porrajmos, the devoured.
The ascent to power of Hitler in 1933 coincided with a further tightening of persecution in Germany but also in the rest of Europe. It 'true that in 1889, in Bavaria, police surveyed the Roma, and who later founded a committee for the coordination of police actions against Roma in Monaco: these measures were tightened with the advent of Nazi power.
The systematic identification of the Roma became a priority because it was difficult for the police to determine whether an individual had "blood Rom" was much easier to establish that a person was Jewish, since the lists held by the religious community could be easily seized by state authorities. The Nazis then sought to identify the Roma on the basis of "physical". The dr. Ritter, a child psychologist (!) At the University of Tubingen, expressed the theory that the crime trend was genetic: in 1936 became the director of the Center for Research of the Sanitation breeding biology and criminal, with the project, among others , To study the Roma on racial, to classify the approximately 30,000 Roma from the German point of view of "types" of race.
But it was known that Roma came from India: in this regard Ritter claimed that Roma were actually beginning Ariani, but then, during their migrations, had contaminated the blood with that of inferior races (Slavs in the first place).
Soon after, the policy against Roma was centralized and founded an Office of the Reich to eradicate the "nuisance gypsies" This agency had the task of establishing a systematic measures already taken against the Roma, they were subjected to the laws racial, as were sterilized, locked up in concentration camps, and those transported to extermination. In Berlin in 1936, during the Olympics, the Roma were rakes and brought into the Marčana, an outdoor, near landfill waste Berlin: guarding the camp, the police do not allow the entry or exit. Rose Soon other "communal", said "Ziegeunerlager" (nomad camps). These fields, made between 1936 and 1938, were the stage for the extermination camps, for example, male, imprisoned in Marčana, were sent to Saksenhauzen in 1938, while women at Auschwitz in 1943.
As you know, there were signs to indicate different types of prisoners in the camps: the Roma had to bring him the triangular pieces of cloth, black, which indicated the "anti-social", or green, which symbolizes the "criminal occupation" Sometimes just a letter Z, which was the original German for "Zigeuner" (Gypsies).
The Nazis considered the Roma an inferior race: their destiny was that of the Jews. In the camps of Bergen-Beltzen, Buchenvald, Dachau, Mathausen, Ravensbrück, Saksenhautzen, sadly famous for the genocide of Jews were massacred hundreds of thousands of Roma.
In the territories of the Reich (Germany, Austria, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, General Governorate, namely Poland occupied by the Germans) were allies in the Reich and occupied countries were eliminated, according to recent estimates, over half a million Roma . In the concentration camp of Jasenovac (Croatia) the Ustascia, allies of the Third Reich, killed from 50,000 to 80,000 internees of Roma origin, along with Jews, Serbs and Communists.
We must still remember the shooting, and massacres in Eastern Europe by the Einsatzgruppen, a structure of "emergency", which aims to drastically solve certain problems, liquid communist leaders, partisans, and tens of thousands of Jews and Roma: And last but not least, we should remember the experiments in the field of Auschwitz-called "concentration camp for Roma families," in which viruses were widespread, such as the typhoid.
But the genocide carried out by the Nazis and their allies for Roma but is almost never mentioned often not even a word. The silence: at the bottom are only Gypsies.
Tamara Bellone
(These notes are taken from the book of Bajram Haliti: Razmisljanja or romskom pitanju (Thoughts on the Roma issue), Nolit, Belgrade and took inspiration from the lessons of prof. Alexian Spinelli, held at the Politecnico di Torino.
On the issue of genocide of Roma by the Nazi-Fascism, in Italian are available books Giovanna Boursier.)
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