05 | Adolf Scheufele, the former head of the ‘Department for Gypsy Issues’ at the Stuttgart criminal police headquarters, had been a member of the Nazi Party since May 1933. At the denazification proceedings he was classified merely as a ‘Mitläufer’, or ‘follower’. Although he had played an important role in the deportation of the Württemberg Sinti and had personally accompanied a ‘gypsy transport’ to Auschwitz, in 1947 the personnel examination board of the Stuttgart police headquarters applied for his reinstatement as a criminal investigation secretary. He retired with the rank of detective chief superintendent. Like many former perpetrators, Scheufele was also asked to testify in Sinti compensation proceedings.

Ludwigsburg State Archives, StAL EL 51/1 I Bü 2873