Genocides

After the start of the war in 1939 the Nazi regime’s anti-gypsy measures were intensified. Increasingly the official view was that the gypsies, like the Jews, had to ‘disappear from the Reich’. As a result of this radicalization, around 2,300 gypsies were deported to the General Government in May of 1940. They were far from welcome there, and the gypsies were placed in special sections of the already over-crowded ghettos. In the autumn of 1941 approximately 5,000 Austrian gypsies were deported to the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, where they were given their own section. The conditions for the gypsies were extremely harsh, and in many ways worse than those of the Jews. Many fell victim to epidemics, or died of hunger. Those gypsies that survived the stay in the ghetto were gassed to death, together with the Jewish residents, in the extermination camp Chelmno.

 After reading this I felt that there really are crazy people in our world who just kill people for the fun of it. I think to myself after reading this and I think what kind of sick-minded person would do this to 5,000 people is this world really that sick. Thoughts like what if someone came into their house and mad them move to a terrible place like Lodz.

http://www.holocaust-education.dk/holocaust/sigojnerne.asp