The Holocaust Revisited--The Gypsies

[Richard Romeo]

Hi all--I've been reading The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies by Guenter 
Lewy. Of note, is Lewy's claim that with certain "non-Aryan groups", like 
the Gypsies, the urge to forced sterilization, mass extermination or brutal 
repression, did not come from the top down, from the Nazi party per se, but 
from local judges, farmers, townsfolk, etc. in Germany. The Nazis, in fact, 
felt pure-blood Gypsies somehow more worthy than the mixed blood groups (a 
reversal of thought as compared to the Jewish question where pure blood Jews 
were considered more worthy of extermination). Funny that so much of Nazi 
proclamations about Gypsies being dirty, mentally ill, asocial, refuse to 
work, sounds alot like welfare to work rhetoric. Guiliani would look good in 
an SS uniform. Mengele, of course, had a thing for experimentation on gypsie 
twins. There is also brief mention about deaths at Dora, though the number 
of gypsie deaths is not known there.
A very compelling book on a piece of the Holocaust not really covered at 
such length before.

Rich
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