{"product_id":"the-nazi-persecution-of-the-gypsies-9780195142402","title":"The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoaming the countryside in caravans  earning their living as musicians  peddlers  and fortune-tellers  the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order  hard work  and racial purity. They were branded as \"asocials \" harassed  and eventually herded into concentration camps where many thousands were killed. But until now the story of their persecution has either been overlooked or distorted. In The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies  Guenter Lewy draws upon thousands of documents--many never before used--from German and Austrian archives to provide the most comprehensive and accurate study available of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi regime. Lewy traces the escalating vilification of the Gypsies as the Nazis instigated a widespread crackdown on the \"work-shy\" and \"itinerants.\" But he shows that Nazi policy towards Gypsies was confused and changeable. At first  local officials persecuted gypsies  and those who behaved in gypsy-like fashion  for allegedly anti-social tendencies. Later  with the rise of race obsession  Gypsies were seen as a threat to German racial purity  though Himmler himself wavered  trying to save those he considered \"pure Gypsies\" descended from Aryan roots in India. Indeed  Lewy contradicts much existing scholarship in showing that  however much the Gypsies were persecuted  there was no general program of extermination analogous to the \"final solution\" for the Jews. Exploring in heart-rending detail the fates of individual Gypsies and their families  The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies makes an important addition to our understanding both of the history of this mysterious people and of all facets of the Nazi terror.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646671577141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195142403","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195142402.jpg?v=1781677044","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-nazi-persecution-of-the-gypsies-9780195142402","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}