In Search of the True Gypsy: From Enlightenment to Final Solution

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Routledge, Jan 14, 2014 - History - 380 pages
It has only been recognised tardily and with reluctance that during the Second World War hundreds of thousands of itinerants met the same horrendous fate as Jews and other victims of Nazism. Gypsies appear to appeal to the imagination simply as social outcasts and scapegoats or, in a flattering but no more illuminating light, as romantic outsiders.



In this study, contemporary notions about Gypsies are traced back as far as possible to their roots, in an attempt to lay bare why stigmatisation of gypsies, or rather groups labelled as such, has continuned from the distant past even to today.
 

Contents

an enlightened historian
George Borrow 180381 the walking lord of Gypsy lore
The heirs of George Borrow
eugenist and criminological biologist
Conclusions
the publications of H M G Grellmann
reviews of the works of George Borrow
Archives
Bibliography
Index
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Wim Willems

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