Gypsies Are Exterminated in Nazi Death Camps
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Human Rights, Fascism, Fascists, Holocaust, Massacres, Genocide, Torture
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History, Eastern European History
- Geographical Location: Germany, Poland
- Date: 1939-1945
Article abstract: Gypsies are exterminated in Nazi death camps after being transported from areas of Europe occupied by the German armed forces to the camps in an effort to “purify” the Aryan race.
Summary of Event
On May 16, 1940, German police rounded up almost three thousand Gypsies living in western and northwestern Germany and put them on trains bound for German-occupied Poland. The deportations initiated a more radical phase of the attempt by the German government to solve what they called the “Gypsy Problem.” The solution to the...
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