EVENT INFORMATION

4
April
1980

Sinti survivors begin a hunger strike for recognition and an end to police discrimination

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📅 4 April 1980 📍

Sinti activists and Holocaust survivors began a hunger strike at Dachau’s Church of Reconciliation. They demanded recognition of the genocide, an end to special police registration and release of Nazi records still used by authorities. The action exposed institutional continuities between racial persecution and postwar policing. Published accounts differ on the number of participants; the event does not rely on a single count.

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People in this event

Jakob Bamberger

Hans Braun

Ranco Brandtner

Franz Wirbel

Organizations in this Event

Sinti civil-rights movement