1st Edition

Sinti and Roma in Germany (1871-1933) Gypsy Policy in the Second Empire and Weimar Republic

By Simon Constantine Copyright 2020
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

This book concerns the persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Germany during the Second Empire (1871–1918) and Weimar Republic (1919–1933). It traces the ways in which discriminatory treatment towards 'Gypsies' developed in a state ostensibly committed to individual liberty and equal treatment under the law, and how government policies in this period furthered their economic marginalisation and... Read more

Introduction;  1. Persecution in the Rechtsstaat: Gypsy policy 1871–1933;  2. Communicating the fight against Gypsies to police and officials;  3. Gypsy child abduction scares;  4. Registering Gypsies;  5. Workhouses and borstals;  6. Itinerant Sinti and Roma and local communities;  Conclusion

Biography

Simon Constantine is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.