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[[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.]]

[[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.

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]].

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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.

==Background==

Within the Nazi state, first persecution, then extermination, was aimed primarily at stationary "Gypsy mongrels". Since the fall of 1939, initially only partially implemented deportation intentions existed. Starting in February 1943, a majority of the Roma living in the German Reich were deported to the specially established Gypsy [[concentration camp]] at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]]. Other Roma were deported there from the occupied Western European territories. Only a minority survived.

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In the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, the German occupiers and Serbian collaborationist puppet government [[Government of National Salvation]] killed thousands of Romani in the Banjica concentration camp, Crveni Krst concentration camp and Topovske Šupe concentration camp along with Jews. In August 1942 [[Harald Turner]] reported to his superiors that "Serbia is the only country in which the Jewish question and the Gypsy question have been solved."

The governments of some Nazi German allies, namely Slovakia, Finland, [[Benito Mussolini|Italy]], []Vichy France]], Hungary, and Romania, also contributed to the Nazi plan of Romani extermination, but most Romani in these countries survived, unlike those in Ustaše Croatia or areas directly ruled by Nazi Germany (such as occupied Poland). The Hungarian [[Arrow Cross Party]] government deported between 28,000 and 33,000 Romani out of a population that was estimated to be between 70,000 and 100,000.

The governments of some Nazi German allies, namely Slovakia, Finland, [[Benito Mussolini|Italy]], [[Vichy France]], Hungary, and Romania, also contributed to the Nazi plan of Romani extermination, but most Romani in these countries survived, unlike those in Ustaše Croatia or areas directly ruled by Nazi Germany (such as occupied Poland). The Hungarian [[Arrow Cross Party]] government deported between 28,000 and 33,000 Romani out of a population that was estimated to be between 70,000 and 100,000.

Romania's [[National Legionary State]] government ruled jointly by [[Ion Antonescu]] and the [[Iron Guard]], as well as the successor state ruled solely by Antonescu, did not systematically exterminate the approximately 300,000 Roma on its territory. Some resident Roma were deported to Romanian-run concentration camps in occupied Transnistria. Of the estimated 25,000 Romani inmates of these camps, 11,000 (44%, or almost half)

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-[[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.]]
+[[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.
+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]].
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 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.
+==Background==
 Within the Nazi state, first persecution, then extermination, was aimed primarily at stationary "Gypsy mongrels". Since the fall of 1939, initially only partially implemented deportation intentions existed. Starting in February 1943, a majority of the Roma living in the German Reich were deported to the specially established Gypsy [[concentration camp]] at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]]. Other Roma were deported there from the occupied Western European territories. Only a minority survived.
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 In the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, the German occupiers and Serbian collaborationist puppet government [[Government of National Salvation]] killed thousands of Romani in the Banjica concentration camp, Crveni Krst concentration camp and Topovske Šupe concentration camp along with Jews. In August 1942 [[Harald Turner]] reported to his superiors that "Serbia is the only country in which the Jewish question and the Gypsy question have been solved."
-The governments of some Nazi German allies, namely Slovakia, Finland, [[Benito Mussolini|Italy]], []Vichy France]], Hungary, and Romania, also contributed to the Nazi plan of Romani extermination, but most Romani in these countries survived, unlike those in Ustaše Croatia or areas directly ruled by Nazi Germany (such as occupied Poland). The Hungarian [[Arrow Cross Party]] government deported between 28,000 and 33,000 Romani out of a population that was estimated to be between 70,000 and 100,000.
+The governments of some Nazi German allies, namely Slovakia, Finland, [[Benito Mussolini|Italy]], [[Vichy France]], Hungary, and Romania, also contributed to the Nazi plan of Romani extermination, but most Romani in these countries survived, unlike those in Ustaše Croatia or areas directly ruled by Nazi Germany (such as occupied Poland). The Hungarian [[Arrow Cross Party]] government deported between 28,000 and 33,000 Romani out of a population that was estimated to be between 70,000 and 100,000.
 Romania's [[National Legionary State]] government ruled jointly by [[Ion Antonescu]] and the [[Iron Guard]], as well as the successor state ruled solely by Antonescu, did not systematically exterminate the approximately 300,000 Roma on its territory. Some resident Roma were deported to Romanian-run concentration camps in occupied Transnistria. Of the estimated 25,000 Romani inmates of these camps, 11,000 (44%, or almost half)
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 [[Category:Xenophobes]]
 [[Category:War]]
-[[Category:Terrorism]]
+[[Category:Terrorists]]
-[[Category:Mass murder]]
+[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
 [[Category:Oppressors]]
 [[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]]
+[[Category:Animal Cruelty]]
+[[Category:Misopedists]]
+[[Category:Misanthropes]]
+[[Category:Misogynists]]