Joseph Ratzinger grew up in a climate of Aryan heresy and Anti-Roma propaganda. Bavaria was the first country that introduced a 'Zigeunerbuch' (Gypsy Book), a register of some over 3,000 names of Roma and Sinti, and fingerprinted all Roma and Sinti from 1911. Children were often separated from their parents. The book was a tool of evil, and punished the Roma and Sinti community as a whole and treated its members as a 'plague' for the offences of a few, which is sadly present in any given society. In 1945 there were still forced medical experiments and sterilisations ongoing on the Roma and Sinti and other 'Anti-Aryans', a 'tradition' that I can confirm from my own experiences in Germany, especially in Munich and in Muenster, where I was still operated without anaesthetics and maltreated and even left to die by doctors and nurses in the 80-ies and 90-ies, and so, I was not surprised to find a brochure in Muenster in the Holocaust museum in 2008 of a Jewish charity that stated that Non-Aryans of the survivor generation and their descendants are afraid to enter a nursing home or hospital as a patient out of fear of being subjected to cruelty and experiments and death nurses and doctors, and from my childhood memories I can also recount encounters with teachers and police officers, who had been previously serving the NS-authorities and had been members also of the NS-party.
Some sad facts about the treatment of Roma and Sinti, who had been persecuted under the Nazis, and who had survived the hells of concentration camps:
To begin with: Even as early as 1899, Munich started a central office for Roma and Sinti, and in 1911 Bavaria introduced fingerprinting and since 1905 Munich Police also registering for Sinti and Roma in a 'Zigeunerbuch' that was printed in an edition of 7000 and distributed to Bavarian authorities to keep them updated on the 'Gypsy Plague'. Other countries had to pay one mark for a copy. It contained 3,350 names, hundreds of criminal records from all over Germany. Children were often separated from their parents to go to school.
NOT A SINGLE ROMA OR SINTI was called to testify before the various post-war Holocaust tribunals.
Until 1963, the same police officers, who had been prominent in persecuting the Roma under the Nazis were now part of the compensation assessment team after the war. Needless to say that they tried to keep the payments down as much as they could and so the few Roma and Sinti, who actually came forward, had to prove that their maltreatment and torture was racially motivated.
During the years that followed the tribunals, numerous Jewish survivors wrote about their tribulations, whilst very few Roma shared their experiences, understandably due to the most basic taboos in Roma and Sinti culture regarding ritual purity and strict rules about sexual conduct, which had been horribly violated in the concentration camps, and survivors were, of course, very reluctant to talk about what had happened, especially not to outsiders.
Not to mention compulsive sterilization, the refusal of legal marriage, and the 'protective custody' in the concentration camps. Only very few Roma and Sinti out of those, who came forward received any payments, as those former Nazi police officers 'assessed' them to their disadvantage and simply used as an appalling excuse that most of the crimes against the Roma and Sinti were motivated by themselves and anyway not on German soil.
The concentration camps like Ravensbrueck, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, carried out forced sterilization and other medical experiments without anaesthetics until 1945; depending on the 'degree of blood purity' some Sinti or Roma family members were bullied into forced sterilization to avoid being sent off to the concentration camps. The first 'experiments', all authorised by Himmler, were carried out on Roma and Sinti, then on Jewish inmates.
The literature about the persecution of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis is mainly about German and Austrian and some Eastern European Roma, but hardly any deal with Roma from the Baltic states, the former Soviet Union and Serbia. I will try to start an archive with as much evidence and literature as I can gather, and hope that we can help to bring justice through the truth via the testimonials of any surviving victims and witnesses of the Holocaust, who can find the courage to share their experiences, obviously in the most sensitive and nurturing and dignified way that is agreeable for a surviving soul.
KATHOLIKOS: universal
KY RIAKE: belonging to the Lord
ECCLESIA: the gathering of the holy souls in the Name of Jesus Christ
1936 January An article in the Catholic Klerusblatt justifies the Nuremberg Laws against Jews and Gypsies (Non-Aryans) as indispensable safeguards for the qualitative makeup of the German people.
1936 January 15 Vicar General Riemer of Passau issues instructions allowing sterilized Catholics to receive the sacraments of matrimony, reversing the decision of January 4, 1935. (Lewy) This diocese was also Joseph Ratzinger's diocese for his native town Marktl am Inn.
1936 January 20 Edward VIII is crowned king of Great Britain.
1936 January 21 British King George V dies.
1936 January 23 Utah Senator William H. King urges the U.S. to open its doors as a haven for Jews fleeing Germany.
1936 January 25 The Catholic Agency of Poland officially condemns antisemitic acts. (Edelheit)
1936 January 29 The funeral of King George V.
1936 February 6 The German Ministry of the Interior decrees that a system of records be set up to cover hereditary biological data on all patients in mental hospitals and institutions. (Science)
1936 February 6-16 The Winter Olympics are held in the German resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
1936 February 18 Goebbels issues a decree muzzling the religious press.
1936 February 18 British Major General Sir Neill Malcolm is appointed League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany.
1936 February 28 London police are ordered to arrest all antisemitic agitators.
1936 February 29 Cardinal Hlond declares in a public letter that "It is true that the Jews are committing frauds, practicing usury, and dealing in white slavery. It is true that in schools, the influence of Jewish youth upon Catholic youth is generally evil, from a religious and ethical point of view. But let us be just. Not all Jews are like that. One does well to prefer his own kind in commercial dealings and to avoid Jewish stores and Jewish stalls in the markets, but it is not permissable to demolish Jewish businesses, break windows, torpedo their houses..." (Lewy)
1936 March 7 Jews in Germany lose their right to vote in elections for the Reichstag. (Persecution)
1936 March 14 Socialists, Communists and Syndicalists burn churches in the center of Madrid.
1936 March 15 The Council for German Jewry is established in London.
1936 March 18 Catholic leaders in Austria demand a numerus clausus against Jews.
1936 March 22 Sir Oswald Mosley makes an antisemitic speech that almost causes a riot in London's Albert Hall.
1936 March 22 Italy, Austria amd Hungary sign an anti-Nazi mutual defense treaty in Rome.
1936 March 23 British troops evacuate Jews from Hebron in Palestine.
1936 March 29 SS guard formations are renamed SS-Totenkopfverbande and their number increases to 3,500. (Edelheit)
1936 March 30 Britain announces that it will build 38 new warships.
1936 May The German government steps up its drive against the religious orders, instituting a number of trials for sexual perversity. The proceedings are given detailed and lurid coverage by the German press. Catholic monasteries are described as breeding places of filth and vice. (Lewy)
1936 May 2 Haile Selassie flees Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Addis Ababa is looted and set afire by mobs.
1936 May 3 Italian troops capture Addis Ababa.
1936 May 3 A fundraiser for Jewish refugees at Madison Square Garden draws 16,000 people.
1936 May 8 Haile Selassie arrives in Palestine.
1936 May 8 Oswald Spengler, renowned German historian and philosopher best known for his pessimistic philosophy of history, dies in Munich.
1936 May 11 Pope Pius XI describes Communism as the "greatest evil to men."
1936 May 18 Haile Selassie thanks Jews for their support in defending Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1936 May 21 Britain warns Italy not to meddle in the affairs of Palestine and Egypt.
1936 May 23 Catholic bishops in Holland demand a ban on the Dutch Nazi party. (Edelheit)
1936 June A Swiss Catholic reportedly asks children to pray for the death of Hitler. The German press quickly accuses all Catholics of being in sympathy with sedition. (Lewy)
1936 June 7 Cardinal Faulhaber, in a sermon, declares "A lunatic abroad has had an attack of madness -- does this justify wholesale suspicion of German Catholics? We feel offended on account of this questioning of our loyalty to the state. We will today give an answer, a Christian answer: Catholic men, we will now pray together, a paternoster for the life of the Fuehrer. This our answer." (AB Munich; Lewy) (See June 1936 above)
1936 July 9 Goebbels orders a halt to anti-Jewish propaganda until after the Berlin Olympics.
1936 July 10 The British House of Commons debates the activities of Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.
1936 July 11 A German-Austrian friendship treaty is signed.
1936 July 12 Sachsenhausen concentration camp is opened.
1936 July 15 Professor Mollison, an anthropologist at the University of Munich, recommends to the Ministry of the Interior that the costs of expert reports on "Aryan" or Jewish origins should be recovered from the applicants. "It is not advisable to provide such a time-consuming investigation free for those who claim Aryan origins when they know they are not entitled to do so." (Science)
1936 July 17 The Spanish Civil War begins. A number of generals led by General Francisco Franco provoke revolts against the Republican (Socialist) governments in Spain and Spanish Morocco. Franco is strongly supported by the Catholic Church, the nobility, the military and the Fascists. Hitler and Mussolini immediately sent arms and men to help Franco. - A SERIES OF ARRESTS OF NUNS HAS BEEN RECENTLY MADE REGARDING FORCED AND ILLEGAL ADOPTIONS FROM THE FRANCO ERA OF CHILDREN BORN TO SINGLE AND NON-CATHOLIC MOTHERS, WHO WERE SOLD TO RICH CATHOLICS IN SPAIN AND WORLDWIDE. THOUSANDS OF ADULTS ARE LOOKING NOW FOR THEIR REAL PARENTS WORLDWIDE, AS THIS HAS HAPPENED ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE USING THE STRUCTURE OF MONASTERIES.
1936 September 4 The Berlin Labor Court rules that German employees who marry Jews or other "non-Aryans" may be dismissed from their jobs.
1936 September 14 After a majority of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy has sided with General Franco and called for a crusade against Communism, Pope Pius XI gives his blessing to "those who have assumed the difficult and dangerous task of defending and restoring the rights and honor of Church and religion." (Lewy)
1936 September 18 David Lloyd George publicly expresses enthusiam for Hitler and his regime after visiting the Fuehrer in Germany.
1936 September 20 The Gestapo arrests a number of well-known rabbis and Zionist leaders without charging them with any crimes.
1936 September 21 Arthur Leese and two other British Fascists are found guilty of libeling and slandering British Jews.
1936 October 13 Special courts are set up by the German Ministry of Justice to try cases covered by the Nuremberg Laws
1936 October 15 Jewish teachers in Germany are forbidden to tutor "Aryan" children.
1936 November Dr. Ritter, a psychologist and psychiatrist, begins his work on Gypsies in the Section for Research on Race-hygiene and Population Biology in the Reich Department of Health in Berlin, funded by the DFG. (Science) RECENTLY IT WAS MENTIONED THAT THE ELDERLY JEWS AND GYPSIES IN GERMANY ARE STILL AFRAID, ACCORDINGLY TO A NURSING CHARITY, TO BE ADMITTED TO GERMAN HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES FOR FEAR OF BEING SUBJECTED TO MURDER OR INHUMAN TESTING AND CRUELTY.
1936 December 7 The last Jewish department store in Germany is "Aryanized."
1936 December 9 King Edward VIII sends a coded telegram to Baron Eugene de Rothschild requesting permission to stay at Rothschild's Castle Enzesfeld near Vienna. (Cowles)
1936 December 10 King Edward VIII abdicates the British throne in London.
1936 December 11 King Edward VIII now the Duke of Windsor quickly leaves the country and begins an extended stay at Baron Rothschild's castles in Austria. (Cowles)
1936 December The Duke of York (father of Queen, Elizabeth) becomes King George VI of England.
1936 December 25 The U.S. announces new agreements that facilitate trade with Germany. (Edelheit) THE EVIL OF GREED.
1936 The influential Jesuit magazine Civilta Cattolica published in Rome emphasizes that opposition to Nazi racialism should not be interpreted as a rejection of anti-semitism, and argues, as the magazine had done since 1890, that the Christian world (though without un-Christian hatred) must defend itself against the Jewish threat by suspending the civic rights of Jews and returning them to the ghettos. (Lewy)
1936 The German government gives the National Association of German Catholics Abroad a sum of more than 139,000 marks, in 1936 alone, for its pro-German and pro-Nazi activities among the German minorities of Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. (Lewy)
1936 A Polish Jesuit periodical asserts that it is necessary "to provide separate schools for Jews, so that our children will not be infected with their lower morality." (Atlas)
1936 Diana Mitford, Unity Mitford's sister, marries Sir Oswald Mosley in Berlin. Their wedding reception is held at the home of Joseph Goebbel's. (Guiness)
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