Himmler is appointed Chief of German Police

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...

Ahead of the Olympic Games, more than 500 police arrested about 600 Roma and Sinti, including women and children, and forced them into an open-air internment site at Marzahn. The camp’s...

Himmler’s decree instructed police to treat Roma and Sinti as a racial population and to intensify registration and segregation. It marked a major escalation from locally varying discrimination toward...

Reinhard Heydrich met Security Police and Security Service officials in Berlin and proposed deporting 30,000 German and Austrian Roma to the General Government in occupied Poland. The plan was later...

A French military decree barred Roma and Travellers from travelling in eight western departments and restricted encampments in parts of central-western France. The measure drew on pre-existing...

The French President’s decree prohibited movement, for the duration of the war, by Travellers holding the state’s anthropometric booklet and subjected them to compulsory residence. The decree preceded...