RUMANIAN GIPSIES
JOIN NAZI ORGANISATION SWASTIKA ADOPTED AS ROMANY EMBLER Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BUCHAREST, August 3, (Received August 4, at 11 a.m.) Rumania’s 12,000 gipsies, who hav# hitherto led a happy-go-lucky life, have become politically-minded and are joining the Nazi organisation in a body and adopting'the swastika as a Romany emblem. The Nazis, in view of the splendid, opportunities for propaganda which the gipsies’' nomadic life offers, readily overlooked racialist principles and accepted them, despite their Asiatic origin and swarthy colour. The gipsies are now publishing a newspaper in the Romany language, which is violently anti-Semitic, being equivalent to the notorious Uersturmcr.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 9
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103RUMANIAN GIPSIES Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 9
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