The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies. .(Book Review)

From: Shofar | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, by Guenter Lewy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 306 pp. $15.95.

The history of the Gypsies during the Third Reich was, and remains, a history of persecution, destruction, and honor. It is also a history that, until the 1990s and the scholarship of Michael Zimmermann, remained a corpus of superficial examinations marred by a lack of in-depth investigations into the primary source materials. Guenter Lewy's recent study is a valuable piece of research that presents a detailed account of the Nazis' bureaucratic and social policies ...

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