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By Robert Wilde, About.com Guide to European History since 2001

Swiss let Gypsies sue IBM over Genocide

Saturday June 26, 2004
It's easy to forget that the Nazi Genocide of World War 2 claimed almost as many non-Jewish as Jewish victims (which is not to reduce or denigrate the Jewish loss, but to sadly double the scale of the tragedy), including Gypsies. The Swiss government has now given permission for a Gypsy group to sue IBM – the famed computer manufacturer – for facilitating the German campaign of genocide. There is more information here.

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