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 labeled as behaving in a supposedly “Gypsy-like” way. The policy shows how ordinary policing and bureaucratic classification prepared later racial persecution. The decree title in source records contains a German racist slur; it is not used here as a neutral description.
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What did the Reich decree of June 1936 do?
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Explanation
The decree formalized restrictions already present locally and enabled further police action.