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

by Wim Willems

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714642223
• ISBN13: 9780714642222
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"