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the Gypsy 'extermination' Big Lie debunked

Postby Hannover » 1 decade 8 years ago (Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:32 pm)

Here is another thorough debunking of the Gypsies (Sinti and Roma) Big Lie. The 'holocau$t' Industry is fond of throwing in nonsense about the 'extermination' of Gypsies as if that gains support for their descredited '6,000,000'.

This comes by way of The Revisionist, 2(3), 2004.

Read on, comments invited.

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Sinti and Roma - Yarns, Legends, and Facts

By Dr. Otward Müller

Media and politicians never tire of unsubstantiated allegations about the fate of gypsies during the Third Reich, such as "more than a million gypsies were murdered during the Third Reich" and "500,000 Sinti and Roma died in the Holocaust." This article will show that such allegations are incompatible with population statistics for these nomadic tribes, both before and after World War II - statistics which are readily available to the public. It will be proved that the official figures for wartime gypsy losses are grossly exaggerated.

1. A Capital Overflowing With Memorials

On August 7, 1999, the German press carried the following news release from the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German Press Agency):[1]

"The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma has renewed demands for construction of a planned Berlin memorial to Sinti and Roma murdered by the National Socialists... The Central Council stated that the memorial to the 500,000 Sinti and Roma Holocaust victims, approved as early as 1994 by the City of Berlin, Parliament and Federal Government, should now be constructed. However, a spokesperson for the Berlin City Council denied that Berlin had promised to build such a memorial."

The affair has reopened debate on the "500,000" number. This figure has to be re-examined, as has the justification for a memorial. No real evidence exists of the 500,000 alleged victims. There is no credible documentation for this figure, and no scientific inquiry into the matter has ever been made. If anyone disagrees with my assertion, I request that he or she notify this magazine and provide documentation including author, title, publisher, year, ISBN number, etc. For over 20 years I have been searching for information about competent investigations into this matter.

2. The Quest for Basis

The first question that arises concerns the basis for the claim of 500,000 victims. What is the origin of this number? In 1972, Donald Kenrich and Grattan Puxon wrote a book entitled The Destiny of Europe's Gypsies. Published in London, it was lauded as "the first scholarly history of this ancient people viewed as a Western minority" as well as an "important work of historical and social scholarship." In 1981 a German translation was published by Tilman Zülch of the "Society for Endangered Peoples" in Göttingen. In this translation, the objective, matter-of-fact title was translated as Sinti und Roma - die Vernichtung eines Volkes im NS-Staat (Sinti and Roma: the Extermination of a People by the Nazi State). The English word "destiny," which means "Schicksal" in German, was rendered as "Vernichtung," which means extermination.[2],[3] Someone really should do a scientific study of propagandistic translating!

Grattan and Puxon attempted to establish that 219,700 Sinti and Roma were killed.[2],[4] That was in 1972, when less documentation was available than now. Today it is easy to demonstrate that the number is far too high. The various figures which made up the estimated total were highly inaccurate, being often based on individual estimates which could not be documented at that time.[5],[6]

It is noteworthy that from England to Central Europe the number of victims increased from 219,700 to 500,000, quite independent of further murderous activity by "Nazis." Since that year, this number has been ceaselessly disseminated by Tilman Zülch and his "Society."

Now that we know the origin of the number "500,000" our next question is: "Where is it documented?" Every public statement has to have some documentation. The following is an account of my attempts to find a documented source for this figure, which have so far been unsuccessful.

3. Search Results: Zero

In 1980 I requested documentation of this number from the gypsy researcher Dr. Mark Münzel of the Museum for Folk Research in Frankfurt. His answer:[7]

"In particular I suggest you inquire with the Persecution Museum in Israel, which can be reached through Mme. Miriam Novitsch, c/o Etudes Tsiganes, 2 rue d'Hautpoul, F-75019, Paris 19eme."

The reply from Mme. Novitsch arrived from an address in Israel called "Ghetto Fighter's House". She wrote:[8]

"There is also an organization of Gypsies, they claim reparation from the Germans as it is true that about 500,000 Gypsies were killed"

Mme. Novitsch was kind enough to repeat the charge, but she neglected to produce the requested documentation and cited no source whatsoever. I wrote to her again, specifically repeating the key question:[9] "Or do you know the origin of this number?" but this time I received no reply at all.

On 31st May 1980 I wrote to the Internationalen Suchdienst (International Tracing Center) in Arolsen and asked:

"To the knowledge of the International Tracing Center, how many gypsies died as a result of atrocities committed by the National Socialist regime?"

The organization most likely to have information about the allegation of 500,000 murdered gypsies answered:[10]

"Regarding your letter (Points 1-12), we wish to inform you that the International Tracing Center has no documentary material or other information whatsoever, that would enable us to answer your query."

Please bear in mind that the International Tracing Service has in its archives millions of documents, card files, etc. from every concentration camp or related institution. Nevertheless it is unable to verify the alleged murders of even 20,000 German gypsies, much less 500,000. Apparently no one except me has ever attempted to document gypsy losses through the Tracing Service, yet every major newspaper knows the exact number: 500,000! Isn't that amazing?

Another organization from which we could expect accurate information is the official German Institut für Zeitgeschichte (IfZ, Institute for Contemporary History) in Munich. However, Hellmuth Auerbach of the IfZ responded to my inquiry by referring me to Kenrich/Puxton[3] as well as a work by Christian Bernadac,[11] who estimates the number at around 229,950.[12] The Auerbach letter is interesting for what it indirectly reveals: at least as early as 1980, the Institute for Contemporary History knew that no documentation existed for the figure of 500,000. Nevertheless, during the ensuing 20 years it made no attempt to inform press agencies, the media, politicians, the German Federal Government, etc. that the stated figure of 500,000 was completely undocumented - snatched from thin air - and thus should not be used to the detriment of all Germans.

My inquiry with the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie) in Amsterdam was answered by E. G. Groeneveld as follows:[13]

"The total number of Gypsies killed by the Nazis is estimated at about 200,000."

He too gave Kenrick/Puxon[3] as his source.[14] Once again, a major historical institute had no evidence whatsoever for the alleged figure of 500,000 victims and made no mention of studies, which demonstrate that the figure of 200,000 is also incorrect.[5][6]

Prominent historians, such as the British biographer of Churchill Martin Gilbert, are quite aware that the figure of 500,000 could not possibly be correct, as we read in his book The Holocaust.[15] Gilbert, a member of Oxford's Merton College, is one of the most distinguished and versatile historians of England. He considers the number 500,000 to be a gross propagandistic exaggeration and expresses surprise that German politicians continue to deliberately disseminate misinformation in their official capacities even when they are no longer coerced by the occupying powers.

When asked about the source of the numbers they keep tossing about, newspaper publishers reply with answers such as this response from the Welt-Archiv:[16]

"Please refer to the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker [Society for Endangered Peoples], Post Office Box 159, Göttingen."

Even the largest newspapers, employing hundreds of journalists and possessing huge archives, whose mission includes an obligation to investigate serious accusations against their countrymen, have abandoned their responsibility. The leftist Der Spiegel, Germany's largest news magazine, answered my inquiry about the source of the disputed number as follows:[17]

"In response to your questions, we refer you to Tilmen Zülch (Editor), "In Auschwitz vergast, bis heute verfolgt" [Gassed at Auschwitz, Persecuted to this Day], Reinbek, 1979, p. 121."

On page 121, Zülch states:

"According to estimates by European Tsiganologists [specialists in gypsy studies], the Third Reich murdered around 500,000 men, women and children of this national group as part of its "Final Solution" although the full extent of this genocide has still not been determined."

Unfortunately, the source for the statistics, which the Spiegel so uncritically disseminates, does not bother to identify its "European tsiganologists." The media never address the most important question! Der Spiegel's response does suggest another question for the logicians, however. After having been "gassed at Auschwitz" sixty years ago, how can a person or group be persecuted today?[18]

4. Sinti and Roma Demands

In 1980, the Union of Romani and the League of German Sinti published a manifesto addressed to the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, whose introduction reads as follows:[19]

"At least a half million European Roma/Sinti fell victim to the racist policies of the Third Reich. [...] We therefore consider the following steps appropriate for the Federal Republic of Germany: 1. In the name of the Federal Republic, the present government must officially admit the fact of genocide committed by the German Third Reich against the European Roma/Sinti."

History shows that when a Central Council demands something, politicians in Bonn snap to attention. On November 7, 1985, during the 171st session of the German Parliament, during discussions on the "Situation and Demands of the Sinti, Roma and Related Groups," Chancellor Helmut Kohl stated:[20]

"On December 21, 1982, the government of the Federal Republic made this determination: The Sinti and Roma suffered severe injustice under the National Socialist dictatorship. They were persecuted for racist reasons and many were murdered. These atrocities must be seen as genocide."

Thus, in 1982 the German Federal Government once more accused the German people of "genocide." In a speech given on November 7, 1985, Chancellor Kohl continued in the same vein:

"Approximately 500,000 Sinti and Roma suffered violent death under the Hitler dictatorship´. [...] These atrocities must be treated as genocide."

In an open letter dated 11th February 1986, I requested that Chancellor Kohl

"offer the public some kind of verifiable documentation or material evidence that would clearly and unambiguously support your charge of genocide committed against 500,000 Sinti/Roma, more or less. [...] I trust that you will agree with me that, in a state under the rule of law, a prosecutor has some obligation to prove his charges. In your speech you also stated 'racial discrimination must never again happen on German soil.' As long as you present no solid evidence for your grave allegations, these allegations constitute discrimination against the majority of Germans. I would be very grateful if you would inform me whether the federal German government possesses any verifiable evidence of the atrocities which you allege."

Thirteen years later, in 1999, the federal government has still offered no documentary evidence in support of those allegations, unless an essay by Michael Zimmermann can be considered a response. Zimmermann's essay, bearing the bombastic title "The National Socialist Policy of Extermination Conducted against Sinti and Roma," was printed as an insert in the official German government weekly Das Parliament.[21] It dealt only with German gypsies, however, and contained no evidence for the alleged figure of 500,000. It also devotes a chapter to the parenthetical subject of "Sterilization and Prohibition of Marriage." A speech by German Federal President Dr. Roman Herzog, delivered on March 16, 1997, in Heidelberg and adopted word for word by the Sinti and Roma organizations, makes clear that the German government has no intention of proving, revising, or documenting its monstrous allegations.

5. German President Herzog Speaks

On March 16, 1997, in a speech marking the opening of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg, President of the Federal Republic of Germany Dr. Roman Herzog stated:[22]

"The exhibition that we are opening today illustrates how discrimination of long duration culminated in persecution and murder. Almost 500,000 murder victims, of which over 20,000 were German Sinti and Roma - that is barbarism on a gigantic scale."

Thank you, President Herzog, we now have 20,000 German and Sinti allegedly murdered. Next comes Donald Kenrich who lectures as follows:[23]

"When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, around 20,000 gypsies were living within the borders of the Germany of that time."

There is a slight problem here because Grattan/Puxon informed us in 1979 that "The Sinti organization is concerned with the problems of the approximately 50,000 German born Sinti."[24]

On September 27, 1992, the New York Times stated on page E5 that there are now 200,000 (two hundred thousand!) gypsies in Germany.

So, here is a question for President Herzog: how can it be possible that the 20,000 gypsies who lived in Germany before World War II and who suffered 20,000 deaths through 1945 (20,000 - 20,000 = 0) had increased to 50,000 in 1979 and 200,000 in 1997? Please note that Puxon specifically mentions 50,000 gypsies as having been born in Germany and not having immigrated there. The only possible conclusion is that Herzog's politically correct statement that 20,000 German gypsies were murdered or sterilized cannot possibly correspond to the historic facts.

His assertion that "over 20,000 German Sinti and Roma" were murdered is disputed by the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well. On January 27, 1993, an article appeared entitled "Roma Exhibition in Mainz." It states:[25]

"Around 8,000 German Sinti and Roma are living in Rheinland-Pfalz today. Most of these families, according to Krausnick, can point to at least 300 years of documentation in church registries as proof of native status."

If 8,000 gypsies living in Rheinland-Pfalz in 1992 can point to "documentation in church registries as proof of native status," we can logically conclude that 1) they did not immigrate to the area and 2) they were not murdered or sterilized during the Third Reich. We should consider that Rheinland-Pfalz is a small province in Germany, and similar situations will prevail in the other provinces. Thus it follows that President Herzog's assertions cannot possibly be true.

We recall that on March 16, 1997, President Herzog mentioned "approximately 500,000 murder victims."[22] If we believe the figure contained in a letter to New York Times editor written by Roma activist Jan F. Hancock on August 20, 1990, Herzog was actually understating the number:

"Recent scholarship now indicates that more than a million Gypsies were murdered in the Third Reich, and that estimate rises as our research continues [...]"

The one million figure had also been published by the Internationaler Zigeunermission e.V. (International Gypsy Mission), Post Office Box 410, Karlsruhe) in the periodical Stimme der Zigeuner and also distributed as a special "Holocaust" edition. Here it says

"The fact was hardly mentioned that in addition to 6 million Jews, around a million gypsies were murdered in the same way."

Here is additional evidence that the number of victims increases in proportion to the amount of time passed since the alleged murders. Let us now compare the newest "victim" figures to prewar population figures.

6. The President Contradicted

Grattan/Puxon estimates that in 1939 around one million gypsies were living in the countries involved in the World War II.[2][3] The 1940 edition of Encyclopedia Americana estimates the number in all Europe at around 750,000.[26] The 1968 edition of Americana (Vol. 13 p. 590) states:

"The number of Gypsies in Europe was estimated before World War II at anywhere from 750,000 to 1,000,000 or 1,500,000."

Very well, let's say one million. Now, in order to show that the propaganda figures of half a million to one million are incorrect, let us compare the number of gypsies living in the parts of Europe occupied by Hitler in 1939 with the number of Sinti and Roma living there in 1992. Bear in mind the anti-German propaganda claim that those gypsies who were not murdered were sterilized! The figures for 1939 are found in the book by Kenrick and Puxon.[2][3] Now consider the numbers for 1992, published by the New York Times on September 27, 1992.[27] We can construct the following table for the numbers of Sinti and Roma in the subject European countries for the years 1939 and 1992:


Kenrick/Puxon 1939 --------------- New York Times Sept, 1992

Belgium ---------------- 500 ------------ 10,000[28]

Holland ----------------- 500 -------------- 35,000[29]

Germany --------------- 20,000 ----------- 200,000

Czechoslovakia -------- 93,000 ---------- 1,000,000

Bulgaria ------------------------------------- 1,000,000

Baltic States ------------ 7,000 ------------ 50,000

England ------------------------------------- 100,000

France ------------------- 40,000 ---------- 500,000

Italy ---------------------- 25,000 ---------- 400,000

Austria ------------------- 11,200

Poland -------------------- 50,000 ---------- 750,000

Rumania ----------------- 300,000 ---------- 3,000,000

Yugoslavia --------------- 88,500 ------------ 1,500,000
(Serbia & Croatia)

Spain & Portugal ------------------------------ 750,000

Scandinavia ----------------------------------<50,000

Hungary ------------------ 100,000 -------- >500,000[30]

USSR, Russia ------------ 200,000 --------- - 1,000,000

Total: --------------------- 935,700 --------- 10,845,000


Note that the New York Times gives no figures for Belgium, Holland, and Hungary; for these we rely on Grattan/Puxon.[31] It is obvious that the total gypsy population amounts to over ten million for the year 1992. Before the War the number was around 750,000 to 1,000,000. Note also that the New York Times lists as its source "International Union of Romani." In view of figures like these, how can anyone speak of "genocide"?

Let us return to President Herzog and his speeches:[30]

"Hitler himself ordered Himmler[[32]] to carry out, without exception, the deportations of all Sinti and Roma to the extermination camps. Then they were systematically murdered, family by family, everyone from small children to aged grandparents. This occurred throughout the Nazi sphere of influence."

Such is the official version in the words of Dr. Roman Herzog. We note that these amazing remarks by the highest representative of the German Government were made five whole years after the publication of the New York Times article. Germany's leading politicians were still telling the public such claptrap at the close of the 20th century, in the age of computers, microprocessors, and trips to the moon!

Herzog's exact words:

"systematically murdered [...] everyone from small children to aged grandparents [...] throughout the Nazi sphere of influence"

What happens if we express his remarks as a simple mathematical formula? For Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, his remarks can be expressed as follows:

Germany, 1939:
20,000 - 20,000 = 50,000
0 =
Germany, 1992:
20,000 - 20,000 = 200,000
0 =
Poland:
50,000 - 50,000 = 750,000
0 =
Czechoslovakia:
93,000 - 93,000 = 1,000,000
0 =

The mathematical formulation of Herzog's statements proves that they cannot possibly be correct, although they accurately reflect his data. Nothing better demonstrates the scientific bankruptcy of official, politically correct history than the utterances of public officials such as German Federal President Herzog.

7. Research Just Began

Let us conclude with a quotation by gypsy researcher Dr. Streck:[33]

"It has not been possible to reconstruct a consistent plan of genocide directed at the gypsies, regarding either conceptualization or implementation of such a plan."

"Real research is just now beginning" is the title of an article written by Bettina Schulte, as reported by the leftist German daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau on February 13, 1997. The subtitle is "Corrections to Goldhagen: Lectures on the Holocaust delivered at the University of Freiburg." The article gives us hope for the future:

"The empirical and positivist approach to this topic is made possible by the pioneering studies of quite young scientists. By means of a very exact study of original documents, it is established that the numbers of Sinti and Roma victims were in fact far fewer than has been publicly stated. The numbers are around 50,000 rather than 500,000 (Michael Zimmermann, Essen / Jena)."

Here again we encounter the old familiar "Holocaust exaggeration factor" of 10!

It is interesting also that the Rundschau article appeared one month before the speech given by President Herzog. Obviously, presidential speechwriters make no attempt to stay abreast of contemporary historical research.

8. Conclusions

Our study has shown that:

59 years have now passed since the end of World War II, and in that time no one has come forward with any objective or verifiable documentation supporting the "genocide" alleged to have resulted in the deaths of 500,000 gypsies.
The scientific historian can only conclude that there was no such "genocide." Perhaps the best evidence of this is the number of gypsies alive, well, and living in Europe in the early 1990s: 10.8 million. This is a tenfold increase over their prewar numbers.
The atrocity figures ceaselessly broadcast by the politicians and corporate media cannot possibly be true. They represent a propagandistic amplification of 1,000% in support of unjustified demands for reparations.
No justification for a Berlin memorial exists, and there is no reason to build one.
Politicians have no right to knowingly execute public policy on the basis of false and misleading data.
Observations in Passing

In this article we quoted President Herzog as saying:

"Almost 500,000 murder victims, of which over 20,000 were German Sinti and Roma - that is barbarism on a gigantic scale."

So, "20,000 were German Sinti and Roma." We have to ask if President Herzog is aware that in the city of Pforzheim, on a single night in the spring of 1945, 17,600 German civilians - mostly women and children - were burned alive in the phosphorus bombing raid carried out by the Allies?[34] Or that 20,000 civilians were similarly murdered in Cologne? Or that hundreds of thousands of other civilians perished in the fire-bombings of Hamburg, Dresden, and hundreds of other German cities, in blatant violation of the Geneva Accords? This was indeed "barbarism on a gigantic scale." Unlike the atrocity stories concocted by Germany's enemies in the two world wars, the atrocities committed against Germans are fully documented. Are the citizens of Pforzheim, Köln, Hamburg, or Dresden demanding Holocaust memorials in Berlin? Would any German politician support such a demand?

Without a doubt, the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma have a right to promote the interests of German Sinti and Roma, but where do they get the right to represent all the gypsies of Europe? Since the number of Sinti and Roma who died during World War II is clearly far below 20,000, why build a memorial in Berlin for this particular subgroup, but not for German victims of far greater atrocities?

On August 18, 1999, Heinrich Wefing wrote an informative article in Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung article entitled "The Escalation of Memory" about the demands of the gypsy Central Council for a "memorial to the 750,000 Roma and Sinti murdered during the 'Third Reich.'" He pointed out that between 1997 and 1999 the number of gypsy victims magically increased by another 50%, from 500,000 to 750,000. My correcting letter to the editor on the subject was not printed, however.

Further Reading:

Ilse Schirmer-Vowinckel, "On the Fate of Gypsies in the Third Reich," this issue, p. 331-333.

Carlo Mattogno, "The 'Gassing' of Gypsies in Auschwitz on August 2, 1944," The Revisionist 1(3) (2003), pp. 330-332.

Notes:
First published as "Sinti und Roma - Geschichten, Legenden und Tatsachen" in: Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung 3(4) (1999), pp. 437-442. Translated by James Damon.

[1] Deutsche Presse-Agentur, "Kurz gemeldet: Der Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti fordert [...]", New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (New York City Newspaper, in German), August 7, 1999, p. 6.
[2] Donald Kenrick, Grattan Puxon, Sinti und Roma - die Vernichtung eines Volkes im NS-Staat, Pogrom Series No. 69/70, Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker, Post Office Box 159, Göttingen 1981, p. 135.
[3] Dissertation, The Destiny of Europe's Gypsies, Sussex University Press, London, 1972, p. 185.
[4] Ibid., pp. 183f.
[5] Udo Walendy, "Zigeuner bewältigen 1/2 Million," Historische Tatsachen (Historic Facts) No. 23, Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung. Vlotho, 1985.
[6] Otward Müller, "Zum Schicksal der Zigeuner Europas," Der Deutschamerikaner, Chicago, June 1982, p.5. Also: Deutsche National-Zeitung, Munich, Vol. 34, Apr. 27 to May 25, 1984, No. 18-22.
[7] Letter to Editor, Jul. 14, 1980.
[8] Letter to Editor, Sep. 24, 1980.
[9] Letter by this author to Mme. Novitsch, Oct. 26, 1980.
[10] Letter to the author dated Jul. 7, 1980.
[11] Christian Bernadac, L'Holocauste oublie - Le massacre de tsiganes, Ed. France-Empire, Paris, 1979.
[12] Letter from Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Aug. 11, 1980.
[13] Letter to the author, June 9, 1980.
[14] Letter to the author, June 27, 1980.
[15] Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust, Holt, Reinhard, Winston, New York 1985, p. 824.
[16] Reply from Correspondence Division of Die Welt to this author, Bonn, Dec. 7, 1980.
[17] Post card to the author, Dec. 9, 1980.
[18] Tilman Zülch, In Auschwitz vergast, bis heute verfolgt, rororo 4430, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1979.
[19] Donald Kenrick, Grattan Puxon, Tilman Zülch, Die Zigeuner - verkannt - verachtet - verfolgt, Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Hannover 1980, p. 125.
[20] Helmut Kohl, "Rede des Bundeskanzlers zur Lage der Sinti und Roma. 171. Sitzung des Deutschen Bundestages am 7. November 1985," special print, distributed by the German Federal Chancellery.
[21] B16-17/87, April 18, 1987, pp. 31-45.
[22] Roman Herzog (Bundespräsident), Rede zur Eröffnung des Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrums Deutscher Sinti und Roma in Heidelberg am 16. März 1997 (Speech Delivered at Opening of Documentation and Culture Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg, Mar. 16, 1997). Bulletin, Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung, Mar. 19, 1997, No. 234, p. 259.
[23] See footnote 19, p. 37.
[24] Grattan Puxon in T. Zülch, Footnote 20, p. 33.
[25] Rene Wagner, "Sagen, was gewesen ist - Roma Ausstellung in Mainz," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27 Jan 1993, p. 7.
[26] "The number of Gypsies in Europe has been roughly estimated at 750,000" entry "Gypsies," p. 591, Vol. 13.
[27] Stephen Kinzer, "Germany Cracks Down; Gypsies Come First," The New York Times, Sep. 27, 1992, p. E5.
[28] T. Zülch, op.cit. (note 18 ), p. 45.
[29] Ibid., p. 44.
[30] Ibid., p. 54; see also "Hungary's Gypsies form self-government," Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY), Apr. 11, 1995:
"According to legislation on minorities, Hungary has an estimated gypsy population of almost half a million but unofficial estimates put the population at twice that."
[31] Grattan Puxon, in T. Zülch, op.cit. (note 18 ), pp. 44f., 54.
[32] See also Klaus Sojka, "Wo ist der 'Himmler-Befehl?'", Deutsche National-Zeitung, Aug. 13, 1999, p. 10.
[33] Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch, Vol. 31, 1981, Issue 4, p. 418, Stuttgart.
[34] Maximilian Czesany, Alliierter Bombenterror. Der Luftkrieg gegen Europas Zivilbevölkerung, Druffel, Leoni am See 1987, p. 650.
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Source: The Revisionist 2(3) (2004), pp. 254-259.
http://vho.org/tr/2004/3/Mueller254-259.html
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Postby Hannover » 1 decade 8 years ago (Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:37 pm)

Also see:
http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?t=829
and search 'gypsies' at this forum for more.

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Postby Turpitz » 1 decade 7 years ago (Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:19 am)

Roma demand Germany build WWII memorial

2 August 2005

WARSAW - European Roma have urged Germany to build a memorial in Berlin to Roma victims of Nazi Germany's Second World War genocide.

Roma representatives gathered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi death camp Tuesday on the 61st anniversary of the liquidation by the Nazis of the so-called 'Gypsy camp'. Some 3,000 Roma men, women and children were gassed to death.

"There are places where memory of crimes against the Roma is down- played," President of the Roma Association of Poland Roman Kwiatkowski said, quoted by the Polish PAP news agency.

"Auschwitz-Birkenau was not the only place of genocide against the Roma. Unfortunately this is often forgotten. We must always
remember," he said.

Kwiatkowski expressed outrage that few sites where Roma had perished in Europe under the Nazis were preserved with due remembrance and respect.

Berlin has not yet built a memorial promised to keep alive the memory of Roma victims of the German Third Reich. A massive memorial of more than 2,700 huge blocs dedicated to the memory of the six million European Jews who perished under the Nazis opened in Berlin this May.

An estimated half of the one million Roma living in pre-war Europe were slaughtered by Nazi Germany between 1939-44.

Of the 23,000 Roma taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp between 1941-44, only 2,000 survived. Between 1.3-1.5 million people, mostly European Jews, perished at the camp, the largest and most notorious in the German Third Reich.

Roma from Austria, Germany and Nazi-occupied Czech territories were deported to the death camp on orders of Nazi SS head Heinrich Himmler.

Many Roma prisoners died of starvation and disease, while some, especially children, were subject to the pseudo-medical experiments of infamous Auschwitz physician Josef Mengele.

An estimated eight million Roma live in modern-day Europe.





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Postby israelite » 1 decade 7 years ago (Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:00 pm)

Excellent information as usual Hannover.

Anything similar that debunks the alleged black euthanasia and sterilisation programme?

Does not seem too much about even from those that allege such crimes against the blacks of Europe.

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Postby Hannover » 1 decade 7 years ago (Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:00 pm)

Keep repeating a lie and it will become 'truth' to many.

And ofcourse, there's all that money to be ripped off. Read on.

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Roma Group Seeks Share of 'Holocau$t' $urvivor Funds

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A Roma organisation said it was seeking a share of a 1.25 bln usd settlement reached in the US in 1998 between Swiss banks and Holocaust survivors. The European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF) said it had contacted Edward Korman, the New York-based US federal judge who is overseeing the fund. It said it asked him to allocate an "equitable share" of the 500 mln usd remaining in the fund to finance "bottom-up, social and economic self-development of Roma communities." In addition to their 6 mln Jewish victims, the Nazis are believed to have killed at least 600,000 Roma during the Holocaust. Roma organisations say the number could have been around 1.5 mln.

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Re: the Gypsy 'extermination' Big Lie debunked

Postby Werd » 8 years 1 month ago (Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:36 pm)

Starting at 58minutes and 45 seconds, Veronica K Clark (interviewed by Joshua Blakeney), claims Gypsies were protected and were taken and put into camps and were attempted to have been made civilized and learned to not be nomadic types like they were. In other words, stop being parasitic and having to commit petty crimes just to survive. Live like the rest of us, so to speak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMvKUKlTCy0#t=58m45s

She claims the Nazis were soft handed with the Gypsies and a Jewish historian doubts the Gypsy holocaust, according to Veronica K Clark. This historian's name is Guenter Lewy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Le ... he_Gypsies
The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies
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Lewy argues in The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies that the Gypsies' overall plight does "not constitute genocide within the meaning of the genocide convention."[26] Lewy concludes that in the case of the Nazi persecution of the Gypsies the "use of the term 'genocide' would seem to involve a dilution of the concept."[26], but that the question is not to know if the Holocaust is worst crime of Nazis; refuse the "genocide" label is not, Lewy argues, a way to minimize the sufferings of Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and other non-Jewish victims of Nazism. The introduction is devoted to the long story of violence against Gypsies before than the Nazis take power, with a special focus on the laws adopted in Bavaria and some other German Länder in the end of 19th century and in the beginning of 20th century, showing the continuity between the last year of Weimar Republic and the first years of Nazi regime. In a section entitled "Roots of Hostility", Lewy argues that the main reason of the persecution against Gypsies before 1933 is prejudice. Though Gypsies are not a violent people, he adds that prejudice is not always the single reason; the misbehavior of a minority among nomadic Gypsies contributed also to hostility and prejudices.

The book was praised by Saul Friedländer, who called it "a work of great compassion and exemplary scholarship."[27] According to Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg, "Lewy's account of Nazi measures against the powerless Gypsies is unsurpassed in the English language." Henriette Asséo, lecturer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris), specialist of Gypsy history, wrote that Lewy's book "requires humility, giving a new, considerable documentation", adding, however, that the rejection of "genocide" label can be "discussed"[28] Hans Mommsen agreed completely with Lewy, including with the rejection of "genocide" qualification.[29]

The book was criticized by Norman G. Finkelstein who wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung:

Lewy's argument goes like this: Gypsies were ruthlessly slaughtered by the Einsatzgruppen like the Jews, but only because they were suspected of spying; Gypsies were deported to Auschwitz like the Jews, but only "to get rid of them, not to kill them;" Gypsies were gassed at Chelmno like the Jews, but only because they had contracted typhus; most of the few remaining Gypsies were sterilized like the Jews, not however to prevent their propagation but only to "prevent contamination of 'German blood.'"[30]

The book has also been singled out for criticism, particularly by Romani scholars, who believe that it blames the Roma people for their own massacre.[31] Lewy's work has been criticized as a text which "overstates" the differences of the persecution of Jews and the persecution of Roma in the Nazi era,[32][33] in a manner indicative of "the priorities of latter-day scholarship, about the way that the murder of the Jews has been promoted to obscure so much of the rest of the Nazi record of atrocity".[34]

Has anybody read the book? I have not.

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Re: the Gypsy 'extermination' Big Lie debunked

Postby Hannover » 8 years 1 month ago (Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:02 am)

Finkelstein said:
Lewy's argument goes like this: Gypsies were ruthlessly slaughtered by the Einsatzgruppen like the Jews, but only because they were suspected of spying; Gypsies were deported to Auschwitz like the Jews, but only "to get rid of them, not to kill them;" Gypsies were gassed at Chelmno like the Jews, but only because they had contracted typhus; most of the few remaining Gypsies were sterilized like the Jews, not however to prevent their propagation but only to "prevent contamination of 'German blood.'"[30]

There is zero proof that "Gypsies were ruthlessly slaughtered by the Einsatzgruppen like the Jews". Zero proof of either being slaughtered". It is a profitable claim for both parties.

It looks like some facts are slipping through however. Spying would indeed be a crime for which execution was common on all sides. I would be curious to see the numbers and source of said spying executions. Clearly if the German kept records of such executions it would demonstrate that they had nothing to hide.

Also we see an embedded fact: "to get rid of them, not to kill them". Besides labor for producing war materials, that is exactly what the Germans did. Just like the U.S., who put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps because certain elements within the US government felt they were a threat to national security, so the Germans sent some Jews and some gypsies to Auschwitz.

There were no gassings anywhere, which automatically disqualifies the laughable and thoroughly debunked Chelmno statement.

"Sterilization"? Why would the Germans bother to sterilize people that they supposedly were 'exterminating'?

Finkelstein, while noteworthy for denouncing the "holocaust industry", only allows truth to go so far. After all he still benefits from the impossible claims of '6M & gas chambers'.

The gypsies genocide discussion is more garbage in, garbage out. They start with impossible lies and then proceed to argue the details of those easily debunked lies.

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Re: the Gypsy 'extermination' Big Lie debunked

Postby borjastick » 8 years 1 month ago (Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:03 am)

Please tell me why, when there are so many jewish survivors of 'death camps' all claiming to have slipped through the hands of Dr Mengele or being in a shower that miraculously spurted water not gas, that we have few if any gipsy survivors telling the same sort of stories?

The fact is that as far as I can see the story of mass deportation of gipsies is totally without foundation, OR they were sent away to eastern europe just like most of the jews who were expelled via the transit camps such as Treblinka and ended up in the wastelands of Russia.
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Re: the Gypsy 'extermination' Big Lie debunked

Postby Hektor » 8 years 1 month ago (Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:05 am)

Werd wrote:Starting at 58minutes and 45 seconds, Veronica K Clark (interviewed by Joshua Blakeney), claims Gypsies were protected and were taken and put into camps and were attempted to have been made civilized and learned to not be nomadic types like they were. In other words, stop being parasitic and having to commit petty crimes just to survive. Live like the rest of us, so to speak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMvKUKlTCy0#t=58m45s

She claims the Nazis were soft handed with the Gypsies and a Jewish historian doubts the Gypsy holocaust, according to Veronica K Clark. This historian's name is Guenter Lewy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Le ... he_Gypsies
...Has anybody read the book? I have not.

I got it as an eBook, but haven't read it, yet. Do you want me to share it?

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Re: the Gypsy 'extermination' Big Lie debunked

Postby Werd » 8 years 1 month ago (Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:03 pm)

I'm just wondering if anyone can confirm the correctness of Veronica's claims about what other authors have said about the gypsies since many take issue with certain interpretations that she has made.

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Re: the Gypsy 'extermination' Big Lie debunked

Postby Hektor » 2 months 1 week ago (Sat Apr 01, 2023 4:48 pm)

Werd wrote:I'm just wondering if anyone can confirm the correctness of Veronica's claims about what other authors have said about the gypsies since many take issue with certain interpretations that she has made.



Well, what needs confirmation are the claims being made with regards to 'extermination of gypsies'.

It has become a bad habit to simply believe accusations, if they were made against NS/axis. And that is a reversal of burden of proof.


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