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Reich Interior Ministry issues a decree targeting Roma and Sinti

📅 6 June 1936

The Reich Minister of the Interior formalized and coordinated restrictions that local authorities had already imposed on Roma and Sinti. Police used the measure to arrest Roma and others they...

Himmler is appointed Chief of German Police

📅 17 June 1936

Hitler appointed SS leader Heinrich Himmler Chief of German Police, consolidating authority over police forces within the Interior Ministry. This centralization connected policing to SS racial...

Jews in the German Reich are forced to wear the yellow star

📅 1 September 1941

A police decree required Jews over age six in the Reich to wear a yellow Star of David in public. Forced marking extended social isolation and facilitated police control and deportation; comparable...

First transport of Roma from Burgenland reaches the Łódź ghetto

📅 5 November 1941

The first of five transports carrying 5,007 Roma from Austria’s Burgenland region arrived at the segregated Roma camp inside the Łódź ghetto. The transports arrived between 5 and 9 November. German...

German police and Polish constables murder the Roma community of Szczurowa

📅 3 July 1943

On the morning of 3 July, German police and Polish constables rounded up Roma residents, took them to the cemetery, and shot them. The memorial-museum account records 93 victims, including men, women,...