‘Gypsies’ - Sinti and Roma under the swastika | Fonds Pascal Decroos voor Bijzondere Journalistiek

2008-10-04

BRUSSELS - 'Gypsies. Sinti and Roma under the swastika' is the first Dutch-language overview book on the fate of Sinti and Roma in Europe during the Nazi era, from 1933 to 1945. Like the Jews, the so-called 'Gypsies' were persecuted because, according to Nazi ideology, they were an inferior race.

But the agony of the Sinti and Roma is little known. This book attempts to do justice to history. It brings together a wealth of data that proves that the systematic extermination of the Sinti and Roma was planned and institutionalised by the Nazis. Genocide did take place.

Lydia Chagoll paints a general picture of the persecution of the "Gypsies" in the Third Reich that is at once synthetic and systematic, revealing a horrific and criminal reality' - José Gotovitc