By Freda Matthews

Gypsies Victims

Anti-Gypsy Laws before Hitler came to power

1899

The Bavarian Police created a special Gypsy Affairs Unit (later to be named the Central Office for fighting the Gypsy Nuisance).

1905

A census of all Gypsies taken in Bavaria.

1906

A special register kept to record Gypsy activity.

1920

German psychiatrist Karl Binding and magistrate Alfred Hoche write a book entitled "The granting of permission for the destruction of worthless life". This included Gypsies.

1922

In Baden all Gypsies have to be photographed, fingerprinted and have documents completed on them.

Police check
on a Gypsy camp in Oberschwaben in 1925

1926

The Bavarian Parliament pass a new law aimed at controlling the "Gypsy Plague".

1928

In Germany Gypsies are put under permanent police surveillance.

1928

Professor H. F. Gunther asserts that Gypsies introduced foreign blood into Europe in his book "Rassenkunds des Deutschen Volkes".

1929

Munich Bureau institutes a Division of Gypsy Affairs with Interpol in Vienna to restrict travel and impose detention on Gypsies.

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Gypsies Victims After the Nazis Came to Power in 1933.

Read more on the history of Gypsy Victims here.

Ambiguous relationships

Follow the link below to see info on Gypsy experience of Holocaust by Eve Rosenhaft, a historian at the Liverpool University’s School of Modern Languages