Germany and the Holocaust of the Roma

The “forgotten Holocaust” – that’s what Zoni Weisz, who was the first Sinto to speak before the Bundestag on January 27, 2011, called the genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe. His speech and the inauguration of the memorial for the murdered in 2012 stand for the late recognition of this story by the Federal Republic. But German society had not simply forgotten the Nazi genocide. She deliberately refused to recognize the minority that had lived in Germany for centuries.

A new book by Sebastian Lotto-Kusche: called “The genocide of the Sinti and Roma and the Federal Republic. The long road to recognition.” (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2022. 264 pages) analyses this denial.