Title : Forgotten Holocaust - The Massacre of the Gypsies - Christian Bernadac - book
Summary :
Renewing the tradition of his major historical investigations into the extermination camps of the Second World War—ten books, whose unpublished testimonies constitute the most complete and irrefutable indictment of Nazi barbarity—Christian Bernadac has focused in "The Forgotten Holocaust" on the unknown martyrdom of these traveling people, the Gypsies, who were condemned—along with the Jews—by the racial laws of the Reich. The horror and immensity of the "Final Solution" of the Jewish problem have, more often than not, masked the organized massacre of European Gypsies. No Gypsies testified at the Nuremberg trials. This "silence" on the disappearance of at least 250,000 Gypsies finds a logical explanation in the absence of a written Gypsy language, but also and above all in the "bad conscience" of all those who have been keen, for centuries, to despise, insult, pursue, reject, and condemn these Bohemians, Romanichels, or other "child and chicken thieves," marginalized not by atavism, but by the sheer force of the attitudes of their contemporaries. Do we know that the French authorities had begun the internment of "the Nomads" in real French concentration camps, built on French territory in the months preceding the Second World War? Christian Bernadac has found the archives of these camps, which are still neglected to be mentioned today. These documents, and an unparalleled collection of testimonies, have allowed the author to retrace in "The Forgotten Holocaust" the long persecution of these families marked, since "the Indian flight", by a curse, in many ways comparable to that which struck the Jewish race. "The Forgotten Holocaust", a revelation that one must - finally - have the courage to discover and read.
