The Roma Struggle for Compensation in Post-War GermanyThirty years passed before it was accepted--in West Germany and elsewhere--that the Roma (Gypsies) of Germany had been Holocaust victims. Drawing upon a substantial body of previously unseen sources, this record examines the history of the Roma struggle for recognition as racially persecuted victims of National Socialism in postwar Germany. Looking at West Germany in the period between the end of the war and the beginning of the Roma civil rights movement in the early 1980s, this authoritative analysis demonstrates how pejorative attitudes continued unchallenged and how compensation was eventually achieved. |
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asocial Association of Persecutees Auschwitz Berleburg Braunschweig Central Council classified compensation authority compensation files compensation process concentration camp criminal decision deportation Deutschland difficult District Special Relief Dusseldorf earning capacity Entschädigung Entschadigungsakten expropriation Federal Compensation Law Federal Supreme Court fight filed first forced sterilisation Fortunoff German Marks German Roma Gesetz Goschler Gypsies Higher District Court influence interviews Jewish Jews letter LG Dortmund Lower Saxony Margalit material Miinster National Socialism National Socialist persecution nationalsozialistische Nds WGM NLA-Staatsarchiv Wolfenbiittel North Rhine-Westphalia NSDAP Nuremberg Race Laws Office officials Opfer organisations Otto Pankok pension police political racial persecution racially motivated recognition reduction in earning reflected regarded Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg Reichsmark restitution claims restitution files Restitution Law Riickerstattungsakten Romani Rose shows Siegen Sinti and Roma Special Relief Committee specific Staatsarchiv Munster Sterilisation Law Third Reich Verfolgte Verfolgung victim groups victims of National victims of racial Wehrmacht West German Wiedergutmachung Zigeuner Zimmermann