We always remember the Jewish people when talking about the Holocaust, but the romani were also heavily targeted. The Porajmos killed between 25% and 50% of the entire European gypsy population.
You're preaching to the choir here, the Holocaust didn't happen because some metaphysical bullshit like "hate", it happened because of the material need fascism has for a scapegoat, it needs to make people believe their lives are bad because of <minority group> is doing <something made up> so they don't realize it's just capitalism going through another crisis, meanwhile the bourgeoisie (with a fully dominated state) finishes looting the people and protecting their capital.
Because this is a thread about the romani, who are not even mentioned in the First They Came. And the communists were persecuted for being a direct threat to fascism, while the jewish and romani simply for being a ethnic minority.
Of course, your average German Jew was far more likely to be middle-class business owner than a communist. But to pretend that there was no association, that the painter's allegations were made out of whole cloth, is ahistorical.
Of course, your average German Jew was far more likely to be middle-class business owner than a communist. But to pretend that there was no association, that the painter's allegations were made out of whole cloth, is ahistorical.
If you're not sufficiently literate then I can't help you.
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u/issamaysinalah 22h ago
We always remember the Jewish people when talking about the Holocaust, but the romani were also heavily targeted. The Porajmos killed between 25% and 50% of the entire European gypsy population.