How the Nazis of Germany Studied the Roma and What They Did to the Roma
For centuries, the Roma in Europe were persecuted as a harmful people. Pagans, outcasts, criminals – Europeans have called them since ancient times. Is it any wonder that after the Nazis came to power, Germany tried to investigate and solve the Roma question? In Hitler’s Aryan theory, the Gypsies were not immediately identified as Jews by the sworn enemies of humanity. Moreover, they may have been with the blood of the first Aryans of Hindustan.
Therefore, in order to figure out what to do with the Gypsies, Hitler ordered the creation of a special department in his delusional Institute of Racial Hygiene. From 1936 to 1938, great scientists with Ph.D.s in all seriousness divided the Gypsies into species and subspecies.
Nazi scientist Ritter takes blood from a Gypsy woman for racial analysis
It was decided whether the enemies of the Third Reich were pure Gypsies, partial Gypsies – Germans with Gypsy blood from mixed marriages. Special Gypsy decrees were drafted to discriminate against the free people.
After extensive research in Gypsy camps, scholars wrote 24,500 reports and concluded that the Gypsies were not Aryans and were enemies of the Reich, as huge numbers of Germans engaged in incestuous liaisons, eroding the Aryan core with Gypsy half-breeds.
Nazi Sophie Ehrhardt tries to befriend gypsies in order to get a racial interview about intelligence
They concluded that it was necessary to liberate the German world from all Gypsies and Germans with Gypsy parents. In addition, all vagrants, prostitutes, homeless people, and dependents in orphanages were classified as gypsies. Nazi bureaucrats counted 500,000 of them in Western Europe.
A gypsy woman tries to escape from the Recreation Zone (ghetto). A shot of an SS soldier before being shot.
Having familiarized himself with the conclusions of the “scientists”, the leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, ordered to solve the Gypsy question as soon as possible. And he proposed to deport all the Roma to Africa so that they could roam among Bedouins like them. However, this could not be done until the victory of the Reich, and the victory dragged on, and the Second World War began. And the Germans solved the problem in their habitual cruelty.
Gypsies began to be evicted from German towns and villages, forced to live in special ghettos inside Germany and the occupied territories, and after the seizure of Poland, the Nazis decided to resettle all the Roma there. Gypsy law was not passed to cover up the genocide of ghettos in which Roma died of starvation and disease, mockingly called “Recreation Zones”.
A gypsy woman with a child before being sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp
As the world war intensified, the mask of shame was thrown off. And in 1941, the mass deportation of Roma to the newly created death camps in Poland began. Gypsies from the occupied territories of the USSR were also brought there, their flow was small, since a significant part of the Roma camps left with the Soviet army, and the rest were shot together with the Jews by the SS Sonderkommandos.
At the beginning of 1942, Himmler reported to the Fuehrer that there were no more Gypsies in Germany. For hundreds of thousands of adults and children, the journey to the gas chambers and crematoria began. Gypsies became the objects of terrible medical experiments, they were frozen in ice water, infected with viruses and did other things that are better not to talk about.
“A girl plays with a ball”. Monument to the Gypsies in Düsseldorf (Germany)
A sad monument to the Roma genocide was the Roma camp at Auschwitz, where 190,000 people entered and did not return. According to historians, the genocide of the Roma took about 400 thousand lives.
And in the Soviet Union, the Roma contributed to the victory. Thousands of Roma fought as ordinary soldiers, tankers and pilots, and were awarded high titles, including Heroes of the Soviet Union. Gypsy tanks and planes built with barons’ money tore apart Aryan heads with the fury of Stalin’s steel.