Gypsies, the Shoah, and Utilitarianism
As a Gypsy quadroon, I couldn't fail to notice these words from the Pope's Message at Auschwitz:
As a Gypsy quadroon, I couldn't fail to notice these words from the Pope's Message at Auschwitz:
- Another inscription offering a pointed reminder is the one written in the language of the Sinti and Roma people. Here too, the plan was to wipe out a whole people which lives by migrating among other peoples. They were seen as part of the refuse of world history, in an ideology which valued only the empirically useful; everything else, according to this view, was to be written off as "lebensunwertes Leben" -- life unworthy of being lived.
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