Morton Klein failed to mention the nearly one million Romani that were killed by the National Socialists. Accordingly, this omission is hateful and racist.
Romani, homosexuals, the mentally or physically impaired, Protestant ministers and Catholic priests who refused to toe the line, certain groups of slavs, etc.
In short, anyone they didn’t think met their crackpot ideas of racial and cultural purity.
Oh, and anybody who pissed them off.
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” In 1982, West Germany formally recognized that Germany had committed genocide against the Romani.[5][6] In 2011, Poland officially adopted the 2nd of August as a day of commemoration of the Romani genocide.”
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s not about the Romani genocide
OOooKaay, thegagline on the IllhanOmar team, got it.
Provide the readers with who the “ Romani” were. As I recall, that was a collective name for “gypsies” (who consisted of at least two main groups and whose names I cannot recall except for something like “Satti” and “the other possibly the “Romani”).
Most books on the Holocaust use the generic term “Gypsies” but I found two references about their fate at the hand of the Nazis (they killed at least 200,000 “gypsies”).
They are : “Encyclopedia of the Holocaust”, section ‘Gypsies’,, pp. 634-638; and “The Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies”, Donald Kendrick and Grattan Paxon, New York, Basic Books, 1972.
Foot note 83 for p. 311 in Daniel Goldhagen, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust”, softback, Vintage Books/Random House, NY 1997.
any information you could provide would be very useful to
FR readers esp. historians/researchers, like myself.
I lost my European family in the massacre at the sandpits in Lemberg, about 1942, with any survivors sent to their deaths at Belzec concentration camp and Auschwitz.