Heydrich discusses deporting Roma and Sinti to occupied Poland

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...

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...

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...

The German military commander in Serbia issued an order extending specific anti-Jewish rules to Roma. Archival captions identify the order and its date; later registration requirements and forced...