Bias Against The Rom Genocide Analysis

In 1935, the race laws that were used to prevent Jews from doing everyday activities was extended to the Romani people. The Roma, just like the Jews were targeted solely because of their race. The Nazi’s viewed them as an inferior race and a danger to Aryan society. Romani were labeled as “asocial” and unfit for German society. When the Nazi’s started sending Roma to concentration camps, they were forcibly sterilized because they were viewed as not being fit for human reproduction. Later, the Roma

By 1940, Roma gypsies were rounded up and made to live in encampments. These in time became fenced in ghettos. From these ghettos, many were transported by train to detention camps to await deportation. They were forced to wear black triangle markings for being asocial or a green triangle for being professional criminals. Besides being treated as in the camps, they were also subjected to multiple medical experiments, including “special experiments that were supposed to prove scientifically that their blood was different from German blood.” Many of the gypsy women were sterilized against their will, which included any female child over the age of twelve. This was done so they would not be able to continue their ancestral line, thought to be impure inferior and worthless. Most Roma gypsies were exterminated in the camps.

Almost six million Jews and over 220,000 gypsies were murdered in gas chambers and furnaces, as well as from extreme fatigue, malnourishment, and illnesses. Nazis believed that Jews were the cause of all of Germany’s problems and, therefore, should be eradicated. Gypsies were seen as outcasts, with no place to fit in. Hitler ordered them to be exiled for having their own vernaculars and traditions. Homosexuals, primarily men, were also persecuted for their ways of life. Around 15,000 homosexuals were imprisoned in camps, and an estimated 10,000 were murdered. Unfortunately, Nazis were not the only ones guilty of killing homosexuals; fellow inmates of

This stage categorized people by their differences and placed the individuals into different groups. It created greater gap and segregation between the diverse people; these people became the targets or the attackers. In Night, people in Sighet heard the rumors and news about the Germans who came into Hungarian domain with governmental consent creating a fearful atmosphere. Their optimism takes over until they faced the same fate. “The same day, the hungarian police bust into every Jewish home in town: a Jew was henceforth forbidden to own gold, jewelry, or any valuables” (Wiesel 10). Soon, more effective and stronger decrees were made throughout the town. “Two ghettos were created in Sighet” (Wiesel 11). The Nazis distinguished the difference between Jews and Germans and established that Jews were lesser being by separating them from society through the construction of ghettos and concentration camps and creating edicts. It showed the power of the Germans over the Jews. Likewise, the people in Rwanda faced some readjustment socially and politically because of the Belgians in the Rwandan government. The European imperialists saw the diversified country and divided them into groups based on their appearance. “The Twa people are pygmies… The Hutu people are neither tall nor short. Tutsis are typically tall and slender” (Steinberg, Hutus and Tutsis). The Europeans also created social status in Rwanda just

In only six years, two-thirds of an entire race, plus millions more, were shot, gassed, or starved to death. Anyone who was deemed “racially inferior or politically dangerous” was sent to one of many in the camps system. Among these groups were the physically or mentally handicapped, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Jews, Gypsies, Poles and Soviet prisoners of war, and Communists (Berenbaum par. 1-2). Millions of innocent people were sent to camps where they were killed or forced to work for the German cause until they died.

Roma Gypsies were the second-largest group of people killed on racial grounds in the Holocaust. Even before the Holocaust, the Gypsies were treated unfairly. During the Holocaust, many Gypsies were put under a law that permitted the sterilization of mental defectives. Slightly less than one million Roma believed to have been living in Europe before the war. However, that number decreased after the Germans and their Axis partners killed about 220,000 of them. The Nazis, “For efficiency, Gypsies were shot naked in pre-dug graves and according to Nazi shooters, Jews were easier to kill because they would stay still, while the Gypsies would run around screaming, and some would fall in the grave and pretend to be dead(Amack 1)”. This example shows that during the Holocaust, the Roma Gypsies were deprived of their rights. Under the Nazi rule, German authorities subjected Roma to internment, forced labor, and brutal mass murder. They were even brought to concentration camps. At one specific concentration camp, called Sachsenhausen, the Gypsies had special experiments done to them to prove that their blood was different from the German’s. Unfortunately, the Roma Gypsies, just like the Jews, lacked many rights. During World War ll, the Gypsies were stripped away from their rights, taken away from their everyday lives, and even murdered for no apparent

All things considered, the Gypsies were one of the main targets of the Nazi. While “pure-blood Gypsies” were spared, the Gypsies with mixed descent were sent to concentration camps or murdered

During the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted others groups because of their race. Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Roma. At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program. The Nazis sent 10,000-15,000 homosexuals to concentration camps where they were forced to wear pink triangles. The Nazis also carried out pseudo-research to find out if homosexuality was inherited by injecting them with male hormones. They offered homosexuals their freedom if they would agree to be castrated or submit themselves to sexual abuse and prostitution. Under these conditions, an estimated 6,000-9,000 homosexual inmates died in the camps

Nazis picked majority of their victims after coming into conclusion that they were “racially inferior” to them. The Nazi party believed that they were an enemy and threat to all of Europe. The nomadic gypsies for example, were viewed as foreigners because they were not of German blood. According to the website euvoltion.com, many of the victims were also viewed as a threat in order to create, “the perfect race” for Europe (“Eugenics as Propaganda”). The Nazis were so focused on being “perfect” that it led to being prejudice and raciest towards the people that occupied Germany. At one point it came to even the elimination of the

In response to the video the Path to Nazi Genocide Adolf Hitler was deranged when the WWI was to blame by Germany. It affected the people and the economy of Germany. Depression and unemployment rates start to emerge in the country. People are killed in the streets and Adolf Hitler had to step in and change his people. He wrote a book Mein Kemp (My Struggle) his goals for Germany. The book talks about territorial expansion, strong racial state, and the elimination of all Jews. German people instantly love the book and agreed to what needs to be done in Germany. Hitler was not elected to office but was offered a deal. He controlled the Nazi party, the military, and the newsreel. In my opinion, Hitler is in control of these things, especially

World War II: Yet another instance of mass relocation and genocide of an ethnic group. But what about after the Holocaust? In December 1944, Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood on the world’s stage and announced the largest forced population transfer in human history-- the “ethnic cleansing” of post-war Germany (Douglas). Up until the 1970’s or so, resources written in English on this particular involuntary migration were nonexistent; even in Europe, the subject is considered taboo.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma (Gypsies), and homosexuals amongst others were to be eliminated from the German population. One of his main methods of exterminating these "undesirables" was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their "final solution" a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the "impure" from the entire German population. Auschwitz was not only the largest concentration camp that carried out Hitler's "final solution," but it was

The roma were greatly impacted by the nazi party's rise and eventual control of the majority of european countries already with a small population in europe the roma were probably one of the smallest minorities and a super controversial topic among the nazis. Technically aryan the nazis had a hard time deciding the fate of roma. But eventually the roma based on their religion alone the roma were sentenced to discrimination, torture and eventual death.

The Bulgarian government forced the gypsies to leave their gypsy lives behind. “They were no longer allowed to speak Romani, to play music, to wear ‘folkloric’ clothes...many gypsies had lost their traditional professions-- as basketmakers, spoon- and brush-makers, herb-gatherers, musicians and so on”(116). The government wanted a society comprised of only “true” Bulgarian citizens, and the gypsy culture was preventing this from occurring. As a result, the government took away the gypsies’ rights and culture in hopes of converting them into “Bulgarian like people”. Many gypsies didn’t have any choice and they had to comply, but it wasn’t for many years that they returned to their traditional jobs. The Bulgarian government was very disgruntled when the gypsies began to form communities dedicated to the gypsy culture and customs. By returning to their traditional jobs, the gypsies were able to reconnect with their culture. They still refuse to conform into the modern society. Today, there are thousands of herb shops owned by gypsies across the world such as the Gypsy Apothecary Herb Shoppe in Orlando, Florida. These people continue to embrace their culture through arranged marriages, traveling in gypsy bands, and speaking Romani. Gypsies are going back to their roots no matter where they are in the world

According to Katrin Reemtsma, the current German population was estimated at around 100,000 people. Despite post-war discrimination the German government and some citizens rally behind the Sinti. Yet, in order for a more widespread non-stigmatized view of the Gypsies to occur social reform needs to happen on key levels in order for the majority of public opinion to change. Some of these elements include access to social services for the Sinti and Roma (healthcare, housing, employment, education), participation from both sides of the community (integrated Roma education), and social protection against hate crimes.