Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Otto Ohlendorf said at the
Nuremberg trials : " There was no difference between the Gypsies
and the Jews. At that time, the same order applied for Both. "
“It was the wish of the all-powerful Reichsfhhrer Adolf Hitler
to have the Gypsies disappear from the face of the earth” (SS
Officer Percy Broad, Auschwitz Political Division). “The motives
invoked to justify the death of the Gypsies were the same as
those ordering the murder of the Jews, and the methods employed
for the one were identical with those employed for the other”
(Miriam Novitch, Ghetto Fighters’ House, Israel). “The genocide
of the Sinti and Roma was carried out from the same motive of
racial mania, with the same premeditation, with the same wish
for the systematic and total extermination as the genocide of
the Jews. Complete families from the very young to the very old
were systematically murdered within the entire sphere of
influence of the National Socialists” (Roman Herzog, Federal
President of Germany, 16 March