Racism 8

If the judge has to individualise everywhere else, i.e. first investigate and get to know the peculiarities of the subject to be treated and then determine the course to pursue, the initiate can generalise on the nature of XXX without any danger.

Klaus Michael Bogdal (2011): Europa erfindet die Zigeuner. Bonn: bpb, p. 279.

From a text by the Princely Reuss-Plauenscher Criminal Counselor and head of the Princely Criminal Court in Lobenstein in Thuringia in the 19th century.

The first documented mentions of Sint*ezza and Romn*ja in today's Germany are from the beginning of the 15th century. The ancestors of the Sint*ezza and Romn*ja who live in Europe today migrated from what are now India and Pakistan. Very soon after their arrival, the initial tolerance gave way to discriminatory practices and racist language. From early on, white Germans were given license to equate all Sint*ezza and Romn*ja as criminals, so that, for example, no evidence was required when Sint*ezza and Romn*ja were accused of a crime; they were treated as criminals by definition. Although they continue to be marginalised to this day, the Sint*ezza and Romn*ja have always been an integral part of social life, notwithstanding Nazi propaganda and until Chancellor Adolf Hitler came to power. Despite widespread resistance to their deportation, and within the death camps themselves, an estimated 500,000 Sint*ezza and Romn*ja fell victim to the Germans in the Porajmos, the genocide.

*Ian Hancock (1987): The Pariah Syndrome. An Account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution. *Romani Phen: Romnja Archiv.

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