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TBR HISTORY ARTICLE - GYPSY HOLOCAUST: FACT OR FICTION?  YOU BE THE
JUDGE 

SCHOLARS QUESTION THE EXISTENCE of a “general” plan for “the
final solution of the Gypsy question” based on the nature of their
race. So-called pure Gypsies in Germany were exempted from
deportations to the east. Also, sedentary Gypsies in German-occupied
territories were left unharmed. But according to recent findings,
there was no genocide of Europe’s Gypsies. The German National
Socialists did not intend to kill all or even part of the Gypsy
population within their reach. So why has a “Gypsy holocaust”
monument, commemorating the alleged death of 500,000 Gypsies, recently
been erected and dedicated with much fanfare in Berlin? Read what
Revisionist Santiago Alvarez has to say about the subject, and tell us
if you agree .  

BY SANTIAGO ALVAREZ
 

Based on a news release by the British news agency Reuters, the Jewish
periodical

_Forward_

Headlined on October 25, 2012: “Memorial to ‘Forgotten’
Holocaust Opens in Germany. 500,000 Gypsies Also Slaughtered by
Nazis.”
 

Already six days earlier, the German daily

_Berliner Morgenpost _had written that the new memorial was to be
opened on Oct. 24 by both Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and the
country’s formal first man in charge, Federal President Joachim
Gauck. It is a rare thing to see both heads of state appear on such an
occasion, hence public attention was accordingly intense.

But what about the claim of 500,000 Gypsies allegedly murdered by
National Socialist Germany? Is that correct at all?

Numbers are important weapons in the psychological war that is being
waged not only against the German people but also against anybody not
submissive to lobby groups enforcing political correctness in an
attempt to further their agendas. It is a fact that there is no basis
for the claimed number of 500,000 Gypsy victims, and that’s not a
mere contention:
 

1. In a paper bearing the title “Against Two Legends on the
Holocaust,” German mainstream historian Prof. Dr. Eberhard Jäckel,
a major opponent of Revisionism, wrote the following some 12 years ago
in Germany’s most prestigious daily newspaper:

1 “The conclusion is that the historical concept of the Central
Council of German Sintis and Rromas [the two largest Gypsy tribes]
contradict the level of knowledge of international science. This is
also true for the numbers.

. . . It is certain to say that already as early as 1972 the highest
estimates [of the Gypsy death toll under National Socialist rule] were
far lower than the number repeatedly claimed by the Central Council of
German Sintis and Rromas [=500,000]. It is to be hoped that the
Central Council finally quits its struggle against science and against
historical truth.”
 

2. Guenter Lewy, professor emeritus of political science at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, writes in his book

_The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies_

(Oxford University Press, 2000) on p. 222: “No sources or breakdown
by country have been provided for this estimate [500,000 Gypsy
victims], which renders it of questionable value.”

On p. 225 he states: “Most important, no overall plan for the
extermination of the Gypsy people was ever formulated, and as argued
above, the evidence shows that none was implemented.”

On p. 227 he argues: “The assertion that half a million Gypsies died
under Nazi rule is put forth regularly without any kind of
substantiating evidence.”

And finally, Prof. Lewy has this to say on p. 228: “Simplified
accounts according to which Gypsies . . . were persecuted and
annihilated simply and solely on account of their biological existence
are not only a distortion of the historical record but also a
hindrance to progress in the relationship between Gypsies and
non-Gypsies.”

3. In 1989, German mainstream historian Michael Zimmermann published
the most thorough study on the fate of the Gypsies yet.

2 While in progress, Zimmermann’s research was commented as
followed by the German leftist newspaper

_Frankfurter Rundschau_:

3 “Only through an extensive study of documents was it possible to
discover that the number of the murdered Sintis and Rromas obviously
lies well below that officially claimed: 50,000 instead of 500,000
murdered.”

And that’s just the beginning. Now let’s turn an eye to some
really critical researchers, who don’t have an agenda like Jäckel
and his ilk who aren’t interested in truth either but who merely
have an interest in granting the genocidal victim status to Jews only,
or so the jealous Gypsies claim.

STATISTICAL OVERVIEW
 

Dr. Otward Müller has shown in his paper “Sinti and Rroma—Yarns,
Legends, and Facts” on the population statistics of Gypsies in
Europe that they cannot have suffered any major population loss during
World War II at all. Usually reliable mainstream sources claim that
right before or shortly after the outbreak of World War II, between
750,000 and 1.5 million Gypsies lived in Europe, depending on the
source, although the more reliable ones place the number closer to one
million.

The problem is that, again according to a number of usually reliable
mainstream sources, the number of Gypsies living in Europe in the
early 1990s was said to have been about 10 million, which means their
numbers grew by a factor of 10 within 50 years, that is, within two
generations. This is a reproductive rate unheard of for any ethnic
group in Europe. It requires that on average every fertile Gypsy woman
must have had roughly 5.1 children, with a zero rate of child
mortality. 

However, if we assume that there has been a mass murder of roughly
half of the Gypsies living in 1939 indeed, then the postwar growth
rate from 500,000 in 1945 to 10 million in 1992 would have been a
factor of 20, meaning that every surviving fertile Gypsy woman must
have born on average roughly 7.8 children, again with no child
mortality. Such a reproductive rate could only be compared with that
of fruit flies.

And most importantly, since the National Socialists are said to have
murdered basically all the Gypsies they could lay their hands on,
there shouldn’t have been any Gypsies left in those countries that
were under firm National Socialist control during the war, primarily
Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland.

Yet according to a detailed article on the European Gypsy population
as published in _The New York Times _in 1992,

4  there were 200,000 Gypsies alive and well in Germany, 750,000 in
Poland and almost 1 million in Czechoslovakia. (They didn’t give
numbers for the smaller countries like Austria and Switzerland.)

So how do you turn almost zero into almost 2 million within not even
50 years? One side or the other of that equation can’t be right, and
I leave it up to the reader to decide, whether either or both of them
are based on a lie.

GASSING MYTHS DEBUNKED
 

The myth of the mass murder of Gypsies at Auschwitz is based on the
infamous _Auschwitz Kalendarium _by Polish propagandist Danuta
Czech.

5  This work was drafted in the late 1950s on request of the
Communist Polish government. Although Poland at that time was
extremely hostile toward anything German, this work was written and
published in the German language just prior to the commencement of the
German Auschwitz trial at Frankfurt upon Main. It was an attempt by
the Polish authorities to streamline witness testimony and to come up
with a generally “acceptable” atrocity story for Auschwitz.

In the 1989 revised edition of this book, Czech claims on p. 838 that
2,897 Gypsies were murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers during the
night from August 2 to August 3, 1944.

In his thoroughly researched paper “The ‘Gassing’ of Gypsies in
Auschwitz on August 2, 1944,” Italian Revisionist Carlo Mattogno has
deconstructed Czech’s myth.

First he shows that Czech made a severe math error. Czech claims,
based on undeniable documentary evidence, that:

• 2,898 Gypsies lived in the Gypsy sector of the Auschwitz camp on
Aug 2, 1944;

• On this day 1,408 of them were transferred by train to other camps
(actually Buchenwald and Ravensbrück); and

• On the next day the Gypsy camp no longer appeared in the
documents.

For Czech, however, 2,898 minus 1,408 equals 2,897. Correct would have
been that “1,490 persons previously listed as residing in the Gypsy
sector are unaccounted for.”

But were they really murdered? There is no documentary evidence for
this.

Broadening the outlook, Mattogno found the answer to these missing
1,490 persons. It turns out that a few days earlier a transport of
Jews from the Polish town of Radom had arrived at Auschwitz and that
they had been assigned to the Gypsy section on August 1—without
being Gypsies, though. As a result, after all the actual Gypsies
(mostly children) had been transferred to other camps the following
day, what was left in the camp’s Gypsy sector were no longer
Gypsies. That designation was therefore dropped, and all those inmates
were listed simply together with the other inmates. Hence, no murder
at all. Just a reshuffling of people.

THE GYPSIES’ REACTION

It goes without saying that the Gypsy lobby doesn’t like that kind
of revisionism. In a “Statement of the Center for Documentation and
Culture of German Sintis and Rromas,” Jäckel, Lewy and their
colleagues are attacked for their attempt at denying the Gypsies the
same genocidal victim status as the Jews. But what evidence do they
proffer for the claimed Gypsy genocide?

Believe it or not, they actually rely on the same utterly discredited
sources as are used to “prove” the Jewish holocaust, for instance
the testimony obtained by torture from former Auschwitz commander
Rudolf Höss, or the outlandish testimony by former SS-member Pery
Broad, which was obviously made under duress as well, as is betrayed
by its language and the many impossible and false claims it contains.
Needless to say that neither Höss nor Broad gave any actual figures
of Gypsies murdered. The above-mentioned statement also repeats Danuta
Czech’s legend of the mass gassing of Gypsies at Auschwitz on August
2/3, 1944.

Other than that, this lobby group merely claims that, based on unnamed
statistics, a homicide percentage of 60-75% of all Gypsies has been
proven, although no source is given for that at all. A genocide rate
of 75%, however, would have lowered the immediate postwar Gypsy
population down to 250,000. Getting this up to 10 million within 50
years, a growth factor of 40, would have required each and every
fertile Gypsy woman to bear on average almost 11.5 children.

I refrain from any comment.

It may be safely argued that not just the Central Council of the
German Gypsies in unison with other Gypsy lobby groups are
manipulating the world with mendacious propaganda, but also
Germany’s leading politicians, in tandem with the world’s media.
Nothing new, really, is it?

ENDNOTES:

1 “Wieder zwei Legenden über den Holocaust,” _Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung _, June 30, 2000, No. 149, 57.

2 “_Die Forschung fängt erst an_,” _Frankfurter Rundschau_, Feb.
13, 1997, 7.

3 Michael Zimmermann, _Verfolgt, vertrieben, vernichtet. Die
nationalsozialistische Vernichtungspolitik gegen Sinti und Rroma_,
Klartext-Verl., Essen 1989.

4 “Where They Now Live,” _New York Times_, Sept. 27, 1992, acc.
to International Rromani Union.

5 D. Czech, _Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager
Auschwitz-Birkenau 1939-1945_, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, 1989.
 

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