Nazi Genocide of the Roma

Anton Weiss-Wendt heads the research department at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (2009) and Small-Town Russia: Childhood Memories of the Final Soviet Decade (2010), and the editor of Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe (2010) and Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1939-1945 (with Rory Yeomans, 2013).

• Acknowledgments 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 Slawomir Kapralski Select Bibliography Contributors Index

"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 "This instructive book is both for newcomers in the field of Romani 20 Century history, as well as for scholars already familiar with comparative studies of the plight of Roma in the past five centuries. Moreover, the reviewed anthology may be regarded as a very competent call for further research and discussion." * Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory "This volume is a substantial contribution to Roma and Sinti Genocide scholarship. Each of the essays in this collection adds both substantively and substantially to our expanding understanding of the murder of European Roma and Sinti during WWII. All of the pieces are thoughtful and learned, and encourage both deeper reflection and a reexamination of present understandings of a wide variety of elemental historical aspects related to the racial and political anti-Gypsy policies of the Third Reich. Each in its own way - by focusing on specific religious and national Roma groups, and a variety of important, yet often neglected, geographical locations - helps us to piece together more fully and adequately the overall narrative of what happened with the Roma across Nazi-occupied Europe. The range of geographical locations and comparative histories taken up and analyzed by the contributors, all of whom possess a deep knowledge of the local history of the state or region being reviewed, is wider than ever before." * Historical Dialogues "Nearly seventy years after the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz and Belsen, new facts concerning the Nazi genocide of the Roma and Sinti are still emerging. This volume is particularly valuable in revealing the full horror of the German occupation of the Soviet Union and the activities of the Einsatzgruppen." * Donald Kenrick, author of Gypsies under the Swastika " - [This volume] provides an excellent overview and analysis of many key and previously understudied aspects of this complex and difficult topic. It combines several innovative regional studies with essays on the issues of German postwar legal responses and developments with regard to commemoration. By assembling high quality chapters from many of the leading scholars in the field, Anton Weiss-Wendt has made a major contribution to our understanding of the diverse fates of the Roma in the Holocaust." * Martin Dean, author of Collaboration in the Holocaust