Prejudice against Gypsies and Jews are not originated with the Nazis, and the fact that these minorities were chosen as targets of persecution is not a coincidence. Instead, it was an inevitable outcome of both religious and racial prejudices which had been passed on for centuries. For Gypsies, this kind of opp

In order to isolate Jews and Gypsies from the rest of the society and control them, laws were passed to purge these racial groups from almost all cultural life as early as 1933. It forced the dismissal of individuals who belong to these races from position of public employment, included all positions in radio broadcasting, educational institutions, orchestras, theater companies, and museums. In doing so, the Nazi government destroyed the voice of these minority groups to the public. Later on, these restrictions expanded to many other aspects of life, such as playing of Gypsy music because “hard-working German citizens were annoyed by the sloppy bearing of Gypsy musicians who used their music as a cover for begging.”( Lewy 57) Gypsy children were no longer being allowed to attend primary school. No Gypsy was to be admitted to a public hospital. These laws not only put the minority groups under high pressure, but also made them more and more invisible in the general public.

ression had existed ever since their migration from India to Europe more than a thousand years ago. In many situations, the oppression was caused by the difference between themselves and their surrounding environment. Language, custom, and even their looking, all became the source of the problems. In Islamic world, Gypsies were considered as Christian because of their different religion believes and culture; but their dark skin and foreign-looking faces made them “Islam” in Christian society. Many Europeans associated their dark skin with the devil; others claimed that they were expiating the sin committed by their ancestor. The similar tragedy also happened to Jews in the form of anti-Semitism. They were alienated in the early development of Christian theology, and was accused guilty of the death of Jesus in a conspiracy with the Romans. This label of “Christ-killers” marked the “immorality” for the Jewish people in the Christian world, and became a sy

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