The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, Guenter Lewy's 2000 scholarly study from Oxford University Press, is the most comprehensive archival study of the Porajmos, drawing on previously unused German and Austrian records, and provides the standard scholarly death toll estimate. Its strength is that it is the most comprehensive archival study of the subject, drawing on records other studies had not used. Its limit is that a single author's archival death toll estimate, however careful, remains a reconstruction from incomplete wartime records rather than an exact count.
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Tier one: the most comprehensive archival study of the Porajmos, from Oxford University Press, drawing on previously unused German and Austrian records for its death toll estimate. Its limit is that any single author's archival estimate remains a reconstruction from incomplete wartime records rather than an exact count. NotesThe most comprehensive archival study of the Porajmos, drawing on previously unused German and Austrian records; documents the escalating Nazi persecution and provides the standard scholarly death-toll estimate. Squarely the fact's own quantified historical claim.
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AuthorGuenter Lewy
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2000
URLhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-nazi-persecution-of-the-gypsies-9780195142402
Source Typeacademic monograph
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