Roma Gypsies During The Holocaust

Another group of victims in the Holocaust was the mentally and physically handicapped. It Hitler’s mind, his new vision of the world needed to be ‘perfect’ and these people threatened it. The majority of the handicapped were killed on the spot instead of being put through the concentration camps. In 1939, the ‘euthanasia

The Nazis weren’t the only people who treated Jews like inferior beings; anybody who has the power can treat anything lower than themselves. “…a present whose abnormality suddenly becomes routine.”(Langer 6). The gypsy considered himself as the superior of the group so he could strike anybody he wants (Wiesel 39). When the gypsy’s life becomes too important for him, he has adopted to the way of the Nazis. As the Allied forces advanced, the Nazis led death marches as their last resort because they had concerns about their own lives. “...life becomes too much for man and death assuming the throne in the human imagination” (Langer 6). S.S made Jews run for hundreds of miles nonstop (Wiesel 85). They, the SS, were frightened that their cruel ways dug up, decided they had to bury the evidence which explained that they could not believe what the inhumane actions they engaged in with other people. People had the potential to manipulate other people in mass numbers but the second they think for themselves, they will find out what is right and what is not.

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.

In 1939, Hitler was unsure of what he was going to do with the Jews; the Nazis were tossing around options and ideas with the goal of removing Jews from the population. The German invasion into Poland, allowed for the first ghetto, regarded as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews. Ghettos were enclosed, isolated urban areas designated for Jews. Living under strict regulations, with unthinkable living conditions, and crammed into small areas, the ghettos destroyed all hope of retaliating. In this paper, I will discuss what life would be like to be a Jew inside one of the 1,000 of ghettos within Poland and the Soviet Union. I will imagine myself a member of the Jewish council, describing the

In 1933, the Nazi's exercised eugenics as a direct way to rid individuals who were portrayed as "unfit" or

When people mention the Holocaust, most people know about Adolf Hitler and how he killed all the Jewish people, but in reality, people who weren't even Jews were murdered as well. This included Romani (Gypsy) children, German children with physical and mental disabilities living in institutions, Polish children, and children residing in the occupied Soviet Union (Children). Twins were even used for medical experiments, and most of the time

Over 11 million men, women and their children were killed during the Holocaust, but, more than half of them were Jewish. Innocent human beings were abducted and put into concentration camps from 1933 to 1945, where they were tortured and forced to work long hours, each day, without food or water. Eventually, more than half of the Jews were killed and only a small amount of them survived. The Holocaust happened because of one man’s plan to rid the world of all Jews. He was determined to succeed. Adolf Hitler began a movement that resulted in the execution of six million Jews.

Around six million European Jews were killed (The Holocaust). The Holocaust was run by Adolf Hitler, and Hitler loved being on top (The Holocaust). The word Holocaust comes from holos which is whole, and kaustos which is burned (The Holocaust). Hitler’s army tried to keep all of the concentration camps a secret, but with all the killing they just couldn’t keep it from the world (The Holocaust). Over 275,000 handicapped were killing (The Holocaust). In the fall of 1939, the army choose the mental and disability people to be gassed (The Holocaust). July 1933, German camps held 27,000 people (The Holocaust). At the end of the war, Hitler commited suicide (The

Hitler took this hatred he possessed for the Jews and his pursues of Aryan supremacy to an extensive degree. Between 1939-1945 Hitler took action, extermination, or death camps were established for the sole purpose of killing men, women, and children. Jews were not the only victims of the Nazis during World War II, The Nazis also imprisoned and killed people who opposed their regime on grounds of their ideology; Roma (Gypsies); Germans who were mentally impaired or physically disabled; homosexuals; and captured Soviet soldiers. Heinous crimes inflicted upon the prisoners within the concentration camps and during Hitler’s reign were intense beyond belief. So called camp doctors would torture and inflict incredible suffering on Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. Patients were put

From 1941 to 1945, over 9,000,000 people were murdered by Hitler and his Nazi forces. The Nazis killed millions of people just because they were barely different from them. This was called the Holocaust. A holocaust is the almost complete or complete destruction of a race or religion. Of the 9 million killed, over 6 million were Jews. The Nazis came very close to succeeding the Final Solution.

“The Holocaust did not happen suddenly, it was the end of a long process of anti-Semitism. The Nazis had come to power in 1933, and used propaganda and terror to enforce their anti-Semitic policies. Laws were passed by the Nazis called the Nuremberg Laws. These laws took away all the human rights of Jews.” This quote means that it took time for it to take place, and start to “work”. Hitler controlled the genocide. His goal was to exterminate everyone that wasn’t like him. Other countries got involved because Hitler would invade them and take over their armies. Countries also got involved because they wanted to help the Jews, and everyone else that was being affected. The war went on for 6 years, but the Holocaust went on for 12 years(1933-1945). This means that about 1 million people died every year. Many people died during the Holocaust. “Jews: up to 6 million, Soviet civilians: around 7 million (including 1.3 Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews), Soviet prisoners of war: around 3 million (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers), Serb civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 312,000, People with disabilities living in institutions: up to 250,000, Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000, Jehovah's Witnesses: Around 1,900, Homosexuals: hundreds, possibly thousands (possibly also counted in part under the 70,000 repeat criminal offenders and so-called

In the 1930’s in Germany, people of all ethnicities were faced with hateful laws, which were prejudice and discriminating. Hitler’s idea was to exterminate as any people that did not fit the superior German race. People who didn’t fit Hitler's expectations were treated with no respect and were condemned of what they owned. As a result, people lived in poverty and were soon moved to different concentration camps. Inside of the concentration camps people suffered from intense hunger, extreme sorrow for family members that were killed by Nazi Soldiers or died from diseases in the camp, forced labor, and further agony.

The Nazi government found many methods to persecute the disabled, including involuntary sterilization. Hitler claimed that disabled Germans cost the government and that they were incapable of helping the motherland. The Nazi regime did everything they could to rid Germany of the disabled; they created unfair laws, medical exams, and sent the disabled to special facilities.(FINAL SOLUTIONS: MURDEROUS RACIAL HYGIENE, 1939–1945.)

The Holocaust was an ultimate abomination of Nazi racism that occurred between 1938 and 1945. The word Holocaust derived from the Greek word holokauston, which stands for a burnt sacrifice that is offered whole to God. The word was chosen for this occurrence because of the amount of dead bodies that were cremated in open fires by Nazis. The Holocaust was known for the mass murders of European Jews that took place during the Second World War. European Jews were the fundamental victims during the Holocaust and seemed to be the most targeted. In 1933, approximately nine million Jews lived in Europe and settle in 21 different countries. It eventually would be seized by Germany during the Second World War. By 1945, around five or six million European Jews had been brutally murdered. A majority of them died in concentration camps that were build primarily for Jews. However, Jews were not the only victims that were persecuted by Hitler’s and his Nazi regime. A half million Gypsies, mentally or physically disabled persons, and Soviet prisoners from war were also discriminated victims to Hitler’s Nazi genocide. Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals were also persecuted in Europe.