Who were the gypsies in the Holocaust?

Answer 1

Same as the Jews, the gypsies were considered far inferior to ideal and useless as people.

The numbers are unclear since the Roma did not keep written records but it is estimated that close to a million Rom were slaughtered in the camps. This represents 80 to 90 Percent of the Rom population in Eastern Europe.

Some reports state that Hitler tried to declare the Roma a non-Aryan people but could not. Mainly because the Roma had been used for slave so long that there were light hair light skin peoples among them. It is said that he was terrified by the people and their rumored abilities. It is a long held belief that the gypsy as you call them are gifted psychics and spiritualists. good answer ^^

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There were many different types of gypsy, call them tribes if you will (Roma were one) and they were treated differently from each other. They were mainly held for medical experiments, the gypsies were more Aryan than any other German, they became part of the Holocaust because Himmler wanted to find out what made them special, about 2% of gypsies were 'pure-blooded' and Himmler hoped that they could help him build his 'master-race'. Nomadic gypsies were interned because they were a security threat.

Because they were held for experiments, they were kept apart from the general population in the camps, Auschwitz had a gypsy camp of about 30 000. Towards the end of the war they were liquidated, as were so many of the other types of victim, to 'tidy up loose ends', this however was very problematic as the gypsies od Auschwitz were German and neither they nor the guards could understand why they had to die.

Answer 2

The Gypsies or Rom or Roma ( many ethnically Italian, as the name suggests) WERE targeted by the Nazi government for their unorthodox life style and work habits- they were incarcerated in large numbers for being Gypsies. There is no intermarriage between Gypsies and Jews ( mutual pressure-zone on both sides) but the Gypsies were targeted by the Nazis. books have been written on this tragic side-effect.

Answer 3

What happened to the Gypsies is the same thing that happened to the Jews. the were gased and starved, and also had their children experimented on. they suffered exactly the same thing the Jews, and Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. they suffered the same as them. The Gypsies did nothing to Hitler or the Germany to make Hitler come after them to. the only thing i don't understand is that Hitler didnt even know about half the religions or people who were taken to the camps. Hitler only knew about the Jews, he never knew about the Jehovah's Witnesses, or the homosexual, and the Gypsies. He had no idea that his own soldiers were doing this behind his back and cremated the bodies so that there was no evidence showing that they were killing the people. They covered it up, even from Hitler.

Answer 4

They went back to their old way of life. they had to,

Answer 5

The 'gypsies' (Roma/Sinti) were persecuted and later large numbers of them were killed.

Answer 6

Concentration Camp