ABSTRACT
In the vast body of Holocaust literature, the story of the Gypsy extermination has become an almost forgotten footnote to the history of the Nazi genocide. Under Hitler’s rule, approximately half a million European Gypsies were systematically slaughtered. Yet there was no Gypsy witness at the Nuremberg trials and no one was accused of the crime. Neither the scholars who provided the data, nor the officials who formulated the “final solution to the Gypsy problem,” nor the bureaucrats and military men who executed it were ever called to account. The Gypsies became the forgotten victims of the Holocaust.
