Editing Persecution (section)

===Roma===
{{Main|Antiziganism|Porajmos|Romani genocide}}
{{Category see also|Antiziganism}}
Antiziganism is hostility, [[prejudice]], discrimination or [[racism]] directed against the [[Romani people]] as an ethnic group, or people who are perceived as being of Romani heritage.

The ''Porajmos'' was the planned and attempted effort, often described as a [[genocide]], during [[World War II]] by the government of [[Nazi Germany]] and its allies to exterminate the Romani (Gypsy) people of Europe. Under the rule of [[Adolf Hitler]], a supplementary decree to the [[Nuremberg Laws]] was issued on 26 November 1935, defining Gypsies as "enemies of the race-based state", the same category as Jews. Thus, the fate of Roma in Europe in some ways paralleled that of the Jews.<ref name=USHMM_2>{{cite web |title=Holocaust Encyclopedia - Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 1939-1945 |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005219 |access-date=9 August 2011 }}</ref> Historians estimate that 220,000 to 500,000 Romani were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators, or more than 25% of the slightly less than 1 million Roma in Europe at the time.<ref name=USHMM_2/> [[Ian Hancock]] puts the death toll as high as 1.5 million.<ref name=Milton_estimates>{{Citation |chapter=True Romanies and the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation and an overview |chapter-url=http://www.radoc.net/radoc.php?doc=art_e_holocaust_porrajmos&lang=en&articles= |author=Hancock, Ian |title=The Historiography of the Holocaust |isbn=1-4039-9927-9 |pages=383–396 |year=2005 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>