further torture of the gypsies

Marzahn (in Berlin) the first gypsy internment camp, (date unknown)

The german concentration camp of Belzec, where at least 2500 german gypsies were executed during the second world war.

The Germans considered the Gypsies an inferior race in a sense on parallel with the Jews, hence they were subject to cruelty and hard work and jailed in concentration camps all over Germany.

In ausweitz the gypsies were sectioned apart from other prisoners and dwarf gypsies and twins were used for experiments. A SS Capitán Dr. Josef Méngele was in charge of these experiments.

The Gypsy section of the camp was plagued by various epedimies such as typhoid, and in August 1944 the SS moved around 1500 gypsies who were still capable enough to work from Ausweitz, the remaining 3,000 were assasinated.

Altogether at least 19000 of the 23000 gypsies at Ausweitz died.

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In Ausweitz-Birkenau more than 20000 gypsies died. In one day alone, 3rd of August 1944, the remaining 2,897 inhabitants of the german gypsy barracks of Ausweitz including women and children were executed.





It is not known the exact total of victims, it is estimated between 50.000 - 80.000 ( Denis Peschanski, French camps, intenment 1938 -46, up to 1.500.000.....

According to wikepedia some 800,00 gypsies were victims of the holocaust.

There are no proven statistics of the true amount of gypsies who died during the Holocaust but it is thought that between 25 - 50% of the total european gypsy population was wiped out.

After the war ended the discrimination against the gypsy population continued. It was decided that all the methods taken against the gypsies, the imprisonment, sterilization, deportation , were considered politically correct and the gypsies had no right to restitution.

The criminal police of Bavaria investigated the files of the case of Robert Ritter,

including his treatment of the Gypsies in Germany. Ritter was the racial Nazi of the Gypsies, he retained his credentials and returned to his original work as a child pysciatrist. The forces to come about and bring Ritter to trial for his involvement in the extermination of the Gypsies ended with his suicide in 1950.

In 1982 Chancellor Helmut Kohl acknowledged at last the attrocities commited by the Nazis against the Gypsies during the second World War, at this time the majority of the gypsy population who had rights to restitution under the german law, had now died.

I am becoming more and more interested in the phlight of the gypsies through the ages especially during the second world war, am putting a halt to my posts until I read further, so far have been reading up in spanish and translating now I find I want to read in english to get a better depth into the history.