Germany and its Gypsies. A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal.(Book Review)

From: Journal of European Studies | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Germany and its Gypsies. A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal. By Gilad Margalit. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. Pp. xviii + 285. 16.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk).

The political health of modern Germany has usually been judged by reference to its attitude to the Holocaust and the question of reparation to the Jews. Gilad Margalit suggests that the treatment of the gypsies since 1945 provides a better measure. Many gypsies shared the fate of the Jews before 1945. Yet even today their descendants are still marginalized and often victimized. At the same time the issue ...

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