The Federal Court of Justice ruled that racial persecution of Roma and Sinti had not begun before Himmler’s December 1942 deportation order. It relied on racist stereotypes and helped exclude many survivors from restitution. The judgment’s framing minimized prewar and wartime racial persecution and shows how postwar legal institutions carried forward discriminatory assumptions. The ruling was revised in 1963.
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How did the 1956 Federal Court ruling affect Roma and Sinti survivors?
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The court accepted 1942 as the beginning of racial persecution, minimizing earlier violence.
The 1956 Federal Court ruling helped many Roma and Sinti survivors obtain compensation.
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It denied racial persecution before 1942 and excluded many survivors from restitution.