The Nazi Era ... the devouring...

Nazi Germany and the Gypsies

Inheriting laws from previous regimes, both national and state laws, the Nazis expanded the laws, introducing sterilization to control the population.

Opinion on the Roma

Germans believed that the Romany were originally 'pure' Aryan, intermarriage through their travels had diluted their pure blood, introducing the racial weaknesses of the inferior races the intermarried with. This impurity was something that the Germans wished to cull.

The Germans now had to figure out how to tell the pure from the impure, and the reason for hoe the impurity was introduced needed to be found. The common held belief outlined above was further refined by a scientist called Ritter. A criminal biologist, Ritter provided the following theory of how the Roma became inferior, providing the basis for their extermination.

Ritter on the Roma:

The original Gypsies were of Aryan blood, leaving India approx. 900AD. In their journey westward, they intermingled and interbred with other nations who themselves were of impure blood, breeding into the Gypsy the characteristics which predisposed them to a set of anti social (asocial) tendencies.

Ritters Solution:

His solution was to segregate the gypsies, analyze them, and sterilize those who displayed obviously impure strains. (Those with criminal, sloth and insanity in the more immediate family). This would cause the inferior gypsies to die out, with the purer ones getting stronger and restoring the pure Aryan blood.

Note: It is noteworthy too to note how wrong the Germans had their ideas, modern evidence suggests that all gypsies were non Aryan and over time acquired Aryan blood. Thanks to the ignorance of the racial scientists of the day, many thousands of lives were probably saved.