Toward a New Integrated History of Roma and Jews in Nazi-Controlled Europe

Scholars have juxtaposed genocide in four ways: they compare them; they incorporate them into a single master narrative; they offer causal explanations linking the emergence of one genocidal campaign to another; or they focus on relations between victim groups. Building on the essays in this journal issue, this article explores how new research on Roma and Jews can help us break with some common arguments in Holocaust studies that emerge from these approaches. Emphasizing the power of local analyses of interactions between victim groups, it discusses how we can challenge familiar chronologies and overcome a Berlin-centric focus in depictions of the Romani Holocaust. It highlights the possibility of an integrated history of Nazi and Axis war crimes that allows the experiences of different victim groups to shape our questions

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