Editing Porajmos (section)

[[File:Bundesarchiv_R_165_Bild-244-48,_Asperg,_Deportation_von_Sinti_und_Roma.jpg|thumb|Romani civilians in Asperg, Germany are rounded up for deportation by German authorities on 22 May 1940.]]{{Quote|The aim of measures taken by the State to defend the homogeneity of the German nation must be the physical separation of Gypsydom from the German nation, the prevention of miscegenation, and finally, the regulation of the way of life of pure and part-Gypsies. The necessary legal foundation can only be created through a Gypsy Law, which prevents further intermingling of blood, and which regulates all the most pressing questions which go together with the existences of Gypsies in the living space of the German nation.|[[Heinrich Himmler]] outlines the Porajmos.}}
The '''Porajmos''', also known as the '''Romani Genocide''' or the '''Gypsy Holocaust''', was the effort by the [[Nazi Germany]] and its [[World War II]] allies in the [[Axis Powers]] to commit [[genocide]]/[[ethnic cleansing]] against Europe's Romani people.

Under [[Adolf Hitler]], a supplementary decree to the Nuremberg Laws was issued on 26 November 1935, classifying Gypsies as "enemies of the race-based state", thereby placing them in the same category as the Jews. Thus, in some ways the fate of the Roma in Europe paralleled that of the Jews in [[the Holocaust]].

Historians estimate that between 220,000 and 500,000 Romani were killed by the Germans and their collaborators—25% to over 50% of the slightly fewer than 1 million Roma in Europe at the time. A more thorough research by Ian Hancock revealed the death toll to be at about 1.5 million.

In 1982, West Germany formally recognized that Germany had committed genocide against the Romani. In 2011, Poland officially adopted 2 August as a day of commemoration of the Romani genocide.