Himmler authorizes racialized persecution of Roma and Sinti

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...

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...

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...

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...

A transport of Sinti and Roma left Hohenasperg for occupied Poland. This deportation was part of the Nazi police campaign that uprooted families from western Germany and sent them into forced-labor...

The Ustaša regime adopted laws on racial affiliation and “Aryan blood” that defined who would be categorized as Jewish or Roma and restricted citizenship to people classified as Aryan. These...