32919 - Trespassing and Genocide of the Gypsies

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi

With the Nazis, the Gypsies were considered a population which cannot be integrated and consequently it was decided to isolate them on a state level. They wouldn’t give them access to education, they prohibited the movement of people and forced them to go to local ghettos.

In 1933 starts the mandatory sterilization of women in the framework of the law of non social groups.

In 1934 the law against dangerous criminals is applied to gypsies and are recorded by police in an anthropological manner.

In 1935 mixed marriages are prohibited.

In 1935 the laws of Nuremberg on arianism collectively place the Gypsies in the set of criminals who cannot be saved.

In 1935 the Police possesses all the authorization for the national struggle against the Gypsies.

In 1938 start the first imprisonments in Dachau concentration camp and then are generalized to other centers. In the end of time, mandatory sterilizations, imprisonments and measures of the authoritarian regime are generalized.

In 1940 starts the mass deportation to the nazi concentration camps of Poland as in Auschwitz.

In 1941 Himmler orders the record keeping of the Gypsies and in 1942 it is generalized to all Gypsies who lived in Germany, their condemnation to concentration camps to end the cycle of genocide.