Sinti and Roma communities

• The Sinti and Roma communities were known as ‘gypsies’ by the Nazis.
• They lived a nomadic lifestyle, travelling from place to place and were seen as a threat to racial purity who did not contribute taxes
• There were 26,000 gypsies in Germany in 1933 and many were sent to concentration camps
• From 1938, they were put on a register and tested for racial purity.
• From 1939, orders were given for their removal from Germany by deportation.