Was The Gypsies Justified In The Selection Process

“Surely nothing is more difficult than to have to go through all of this, to be cold, without mercy, and without compassion,” says Rudolph Hoss. He was just one of the men who believed Gypsies were impure (Hoss 135-138). Rudolph Hoss’ journal gets even more gruesome and in depth later throughout the story of what the Gypsies had to go through and it’s just the beginning of what happened to them. Because the Nazis believed that the Gypsies were liars and thieves, the Nazis persecuted them using the Nuremberg Laws, which eventually led to the Gypsies' internment in the concentration camps. The Gypsies had to go through the horrific and frightening process of testing for the purity of their “kind”. The Nazis constructed research to prove that

During the selection if you were sick, unable to work, or had any type of deformity you would be sent to the gas chambers. If they were deemed healthy than they would be sent to the barracks. The Gypsies weren’t the only ones that had to go through the selection process. Everyone who entered the camp, including the Jews, had to. Even though the barracks seems better than having to go to the gas chambers it is also a horrific and atrocious place in its own way. The barracks were overcrowded. This made them even more unsanitary and illnesses would spread rapidly. For instance, in the family camps many of the Gypsies suffered from Noma. This killed most of the infants and kids in the camps and this made the death rate for children especially high (Hoss 135-138). Unlike the Jews, the Gypsies could stay with their families in family camps. Since they got to stay with their families it was “harder to separate the families and clans from each other” (Hoss 135-138). After they were deemed healthy enough to work they would be sent to the showers, get stripped of the last possessions that they had, and receive new

They both had to tolerate the unbearable abuse, torture, and killings in the camps. Since both groups went through the same experiences and events it caused them to have multiple parallels and less differences. The primary parallel between the two groups was the Nuremberg Laws because it determined their fate and the Final Solution. This is the primary parallel between the Jews and Gypsies because it held their fate in their hands on what would happen to them during the time of the Holocaust. It also determined the torture and executions that happened inside the concentration camps. Even though the Jews and Gypsies didn’t have a lot of differences one primary difference between them was that the Gypsies were persecuted because of their stereotype, while the Jews were persecuted because of their religion and beliefs. The Gypsies had a so called “stereotype” that they were liars and thieves. Even though this was untrue, the Nazis didn’t believe that because their research proved otherwise. On the other end, the Jews were persecuted because of their religion. They were thought of as impure and that they weren’t the ideal race