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Who is Gypsies from Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land and what is their importance? Auschwitz:_True_Tales_from_a_Grotesque_Land English & Literature Gypsies | Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land

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Gypsies made up a large part of Hitler's list of races that were to be exterminated. Mengele was head of the gypsy camp..... at least until he'd killed them all off. The author believed that 20,000 were killed. Current numbers suggest that it was around 6,000.

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Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land