History 3427E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, Magnus Hirschfeld, Heinrich Himmler
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Gypsies : roma and sinti had once been aryans . Racial characteristics inclined them to be asocial was of life. 90% of german gypsies not pure they had racially mixed with non-aryans that gave them the asocial characteristics making them peoples of diluted blood. Prevention of marriage and sexual relations with germans. They were based off of a oral tradition. Population that is often ostracized and looked down upon and victims of hatred and projection of hatred. 1936- reich central office for the fight against gypsy nuisance way in which to combat gypsy travel step towards the centralization of anti gypsy policy beginning of a process by which to identify them. Racal hygienic and heredity research center dr. robert ritter. Trying to establish a database that will out line gypsy characteristics and will all nazi racial scientists to figure out how to categorize them. Those who left were put into concentration camps.