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The persecution of the Gypsies during the Nazi regime, a subject long neglected and overshadowed by the Jewish tragedy, takes center stage in this work, analyzing the implications of prejudicial thought, racist action, and explicit violence. In Genocide: Gypsies in Nazi Germany, Joseph Peter Stosko shows how simplified understandings of the concept of genocide have done an injustice to the plight of Gypsies in Hitler s Germany. His analysis offers insights into how we can better understand the persecution of Gypsies and the historiography of genocide by comparing other examples of mass violence that teeter on the border of genocide. In this succinct, exploratory study he weaves sociology, history, and international law, thoughtfully reconstructing the sad paradigms of power and judgment in which such conditions transpired. This study will be useful to those interested in genocide studies, nationalism, comparative sociology, and history.
