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Michael Burleigh observed that the power ‘ascribed to the Jews in this pseudo-cosmology differentiated anti-Semitism from other forms of racism,’ insofar as ‘eugenic “burdend” ‘ and gypsy ‘nuisances’ were not existentially menacing in the same comprehensive way.’ Decades’ old laws against itinerant gypsies -- even Heydrich’s decree against ‘gypsy fortune-telling’ -- never caused a sea change in policy toward the Roma or Sinti as a race. Nor were the majority of gypsies murdered in the death camps. To the contrary, inspired by Robert Ritter, the Nazi doctor in charge of gypsy policy in the Reich Institute for Criminal Biology, Himmler ordered Arthur Nebe and the Kripo to ‘establish a closer and very positive contact with the gypsies. . . [in order] to study the gypsy language and, beyond that, learn about gypsy customs.’ The reason was that Himmler, Ritter, and other Nazis ‘believed the pseudoscientific tale of Aryan origin of the gypsies and therefore wanted those considered ‘racially pure’ preserved as a potentially valuable addition to the stock of Aryan blood.’ The Nazi simply did not see the gypsies as ‘the kind of supernatural threat that the Jews allegedly posed.’ ~ Page 256

Although tens of thousand of ‘mixed race’ Roma and Sinti perished at Auschwitz, we must recall that Himmler, with Hitler’s approval, ordered that ‘pure’ gypsies were the like descendants of the original Aryans from Northwest India. ‘Aryan’ gypsies even received favourable treatment at Auschwitz -- from Rudolf Hoess no less, a former Artamanen -- and were considered for an “Indian legion’ of Aryan soldiers. . . . Page 260
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