Although the Roma were among those targeted for complete annihilation by the Nazis. relatively little is known of their horrible suffering before and during World War i. In fact. institutionalized discrimination against Roma in Germany began well before the Nazi regime. During the 1920s and 1930s. these practices took on an increasingly virulent form and policies similar to those instituted against Germanys Jews were also implemented against Roma: racebased denial of the right to vote. selection for forced sterilization. loss of citizenship. incarceration in work or concentration camps. and. ultimately. deportation to and mass murder at death camps. During the war itself. at least 23.000 Roma were brought to Auschwitz and almost all of them perished in the gas chambers or from starvation. exhaustion. or disease. Some also died at the hands of sadistic SS doctors. like Joseph Mengele.
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