The Nazi genocide of the Sinti and Roma
and the long struggle for recognition
and the long struggle for recognition
The Nazi genocide
of the Sinti and Roma and the
long struggle for recognition
of the Sinti and Roma and the
long struggle for recognition
„Racial Diagnosis:Gypsy“
The path to genocide
The Nazi Holocaust perpetrated on the Sinti and Roma represents a turning point in the centuries-old shared history between the ethnic minority and the majority in society. It was a state crime carried out by a modern administrative apparatus, orchestrated from central offices in Berlin right down to the authorities at municipal level. Entire families were processed by bureaucrats, deported, and murdered on the basis of a racist ideology – all because they happened to be born as Sinti or Roma.
When the Second World War broke out, the Sinti and Roma minorities in German-occupied states allied with Hitler-Germany also became victims of the Nazi policy of genocide.
