It is one the much less recognized chapters of WWII: the Nazis’ racially-based bloodbath of wherever between 1 / 4 and half 1,000,000 Roma on prime of the greater than six million Jews killed within the Holocaust. Roma victims had been additionally subjected to internment, compelled labour, deportation and mass execution, although the journey to having the genocide in opposition to the group acknowledged as such has been extra sophisticated. For extra evaluation, FRANCE 24’s Erin Ogunkeye is joined by Historian Joey Rauschenberger.
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