National socialism and Gypsies in Austria / Erika Thurner ; edited and translated by Gilya Gerda Schmidt ; with a foreword by Michael Berenbaum [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thurner, Erika.

Standardized Title:

Nationalsozialismus und Zigeuner in Österreich. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Austria.

Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.

National socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 218 p. ) ill., map ;

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in German, Erika Thurner's National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria is the ground-breaking study of Nazi policy toward Gypsies during the Third Reich. As noted in the foreword, although Jews were the major target of the Nazis, others were also marked for extermination. Indeed, of the groups targeted by the Nazis, only Jews and Gypsies were killed indiscriminately and tribally, that is, by the gassing of entire family groups of men, women, and children. Of the eleven thousand Gypsies living in Austria at the start of the war, only three thousand survived Nazi persecution. In the first English translation of this important work, Gilya Gerda Schmidt makes available Thurner's investigation of Camps Salzburg and Lackenbach, the two central areas of Gypsy persecution in Austria. This English translation has also been expanded, with a new study of Camp Salzburg, an updated bibliography, and numerous photographs, which were not included in the German edition.

Contents:

Foreword

Editor/translator's introduction

Author's introduction to the American edition

Author's introduction to the first edition

Abbreviations

Comments on the state of the literature and sources

Ideological foundations and legal ordinances regarding the persecution of Gypsies

The situation of the Gypsies in Salzburg before 1939 and Gypsy camp(s) Salzburg (1939-1943)

Salzburg-Maxglan/Leopoldskron or Salzburg-Rennbahn

Discrimination and persecution of the Burgenland Gypsies

Camp Lackenbach

Gypsy transports from Austria to Lodz and Chelmno

Gypsies as subjects of medical experiments

Concluding remarks

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-20112-9