re: #178 Obdicut

In fact, if we look at “microstudies”, we see that there have been internal struggles between Nazi attritionists and Nazi annihilationists, the former basing their arguments on economic considerations, and the latter on ideology.

As for the Roma and Sinti, notably the Nazi policy differed in an important way from the treatment of the Jews. The Nazis fully acknowledged the “Aryan” roots of the Gypsies and at first they were trying to “reeducate” those of them they considered racially pure Zigeuner (IIRC Zigeuner “Mischlinge” were considered to be inferior - which was the opposite for the Jewish “Mischlinge”). It is after the failure they began mowing them down and sending them to concentration camps.