When it comes to Holocaust, it is a recognized opinion that you speak of the extermination of European Jews by Nazism and yet the Nazis, in their insane thirst for "racial purity" did not kill only Jews. Of course, there were handicapped, homosexuals, politicians, but these assassinations are not included in the Holocaust word as they can not be described as genocide. This element, however, is in the systematic extermination of Roma and Sinti, or Gypsies. It has to be said that this extermination started a bit before Hitler, and that it would be gladly continue even afterwards, as this people is so much detested. Through the story of Trollman, Gypsy Sinti of a non-nomadic family, a boxer champion stripped from the Nazis of his title and, at the end, of his life, his family and his people, wirg parallels and intertwines with the story of a contemporaneous gypsy, Django Reinhardt, jazz's white father, Nirenberg tells us about this forgotten Holocaust and how we still can not see beyond the prejudices.
Very important, interesting and well-documented, perhaps a little repetitive in the final part.
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